Organ Donation

About Project ‘Gift Hope, Gift Life’

SBI Foundation has been partnering with MOHAN Foundation since 2017 through the Project Gift Hope, Gift Life.

The salient features of the project include:
• Education & Training of Medical and Para-medical professionals
• SBI - MOHAN Organ Donation Helpline 24x7 (Toll Free) for dissemination of information to public and patients
• Setting up of organ donation programme in states will no organ donation activity
• Strengthening the organ donation programme in a few select states
• Raising awareness about organ donation among the public
• Setting up of a Patient Support Group

Millions of people have been impacted through:
• Public sensitization about organ donation
• Education and training of healthcare professionals
• Education and support for patients
• Training of volunteers for capacity building in public education
• Helpline counselling
• Counselling bereaved families to donate their loved one's organs and coordinating for organ donation so that many lives can be saved or healed through organ and tissue donation



“Organ donation and transplantation are among the most remarkable medical success stories of this century. One individual has the power to save up to 8 lives. Hence, in 2016, SBI Foundation’s Board sought to endorse this major nationwide cause and took up the challenge of improving the organ donation scenario in the country. To bring our intent into action, the project ‘Gift Hope, Gift Life’ was designed jointly with MOHAN Foundation. Now in the 4th year, we have set up a toll-free 24x7 SBI-MOHAN Foundation Organ Donation Helpline in 8 languages and are undertaking training and capacity building of healthcare personnel. We started a support group for organ failure patients, transplant recipients and caregivers. Through this holistic approach, we have so far been able to improve the organ donation numbers in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Maharashtra, and Chandigarh, and we are committed to replicating this success story across the country.”
Mr. Sanjay Prakash
Managing Director & CEO,
SBI Foundation




"The SBI - MOHAN Foundation Organ Donation Helpline is an important initiative in the organ donation ecosystem as it acts as a bridge between its various stakeholders - public, patients, police and professionals from healthcare. It completes the loop and gives clarity to the public as to where to reach out for any sort of information. It is commendable that what started off as an information-giving tool has now been coordinating organ and tissue donations, and more than 200 lives have been saved and approximately 46,000 beneficiaries have been counselled under the initiative."
Mr. Lalit Mohan
President, COO, SBI Foundation