The story
Five friends; Shaik Shareef, Naveen Reddy, Eswar S, Phani Kethamakka and Murali Krishna, from Narsaraopet, Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh inaugurated F2S on November 14, 2005, in Hyderabad. with the service of only 100 voluntary blood donors. The founders are all software engineers employed in various countries. Friends2Support was founded as an effort to tackle the problem of blood unavailability at the hospital.
The five members became the first donors, after which others joined. They had to manage their IT jobs while spreading the idea. They mailed whoever they knew about the website in their spare time, who in turn, spread it to other people. They held gatherings and approached people door-to-door.
F2S has conducted many events to promote their idea across the country including bike rallies, walks and signature campaigns.
Future plans include establishing a free toll-free number across the country in various languages concentrating on rural education and starting a book donation website.
From Wikipedia’s article on Friends2support, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3