• Practice of good health habits.
• Cleanliness of college premises, their own places and outside.
• Preparation of health poster and pamphlets.
• Propaganda on health and cleanliness in villages, slums and towns to create awareness among the people on hygiene by organizing propaganda parties, processions, dramas etc.
• Conducting medical check-up camps at slums, villages and in other places of need with the help of state parent body.
• Co-operating with public, Health Department in anti-epidemic measures, village sanitation etc.
• Exhibition of film shows, cultural programmes on prevention of diseases.
• Conduct Essay competition and award prizes.

• Organization of Blood grouping and donation camps with the help of Chief District Medical Officers (CDMOs) / Blood Bank Officers. The report of such camps should be sent to University Co-ordinator and YRC State Branch Office.
• A directory of blood donors in the college may be brought out and given to hospitals and service organization.
• Organize demonstration of fire fighting in consultation with the fire station near the College. Steps may be taken to impart training in Fire Fighting and Rescue Operation to the YRC Volunteers as per the guidelines as may be sent from the YRC Headquarters.
• Render help and assistance to the needy and meritorious handicap students (such as the blind) of the Colleges.
• Organize 5 days or 10 days training camps of Youth Red Cross near the College in the holidays.
• Organize short duration (one day, two days or three days) specific Service Programmes / camps during local fairs and festivals.
• Taking care of the sick and wounded persons.
• Organization of Non-formal adult education, literacy campaigns, sewing and handicraft training programmes etc.
• Construction of roads, digging wells / tanks / ponds / drains / channel for water management, rain water harvesting in the college / nearby village.
• Cleaning and de-weeding of tanks / ponds with the help of the local people.
• Tree plantation and afforestation.
• Drives for small savings and co-operatives.
• Identification of the needy poor persons.
• Create awareness for development of diary, poultry, piggery, fishery, beekeeping, mushroom cultivation etc.
• Supply of medicines, fruits etc., to sick children.
• Extending financial and material aid to the disabled and needy students of the college.
• Provide garments to the needy patients, especially children in the hospitals.
• Visit Anganvadi, orphanage, schools for the blind, institution for the physically handicapped with gifts.
• Hospitals service: Assisting in the dressing of wounds, in arranging the hospital library, taking care of the sick, Out-Patient crowd regulation etc.
• Save the environment for pollution.
• Education on population control.
• Observance of World Health Day, Blood Donation Day, World Red Cross Day etc. as would be instructed by the YRC Headquarters.

• Organize Disaster Service Camps during natural or man-made disasters like flood, drought, earth quake, cyclone, tsunami, fire accidents, ethnic violence etc. at the site.
• Special Service Camps may also be arranged within the reach of the College.
• Immediate emergency relief measures to victims in the vicinity of the college may be taken on priority basis with available funds as per the directions of the principal and on the recommendations of YRC Programme Officer of the college.
• Relief materials and funds may be collected from public with proper authorization from the principal and assistance of the YRC Programme Officers by the YRC Volunteers to be distributed to the victims of disaster.
• The YRC unit in the college must co-operate and co-ordiante with the local administration and other NGOs for the mitigation of the sufferings of the disaster victims and all possible helps to the authorities in the survey, identification and enumeration of victims.
• Report on such disaster relief activities may be to University Co-ordinator and YRC HQ.

To enable the YRC Unit to function effectively the faculty members who are in charge of YRC Units as Programme Officers will be trained to promote the YRC works on right lines, (Origin of Red Cross / Junior Red Cross and Youth Red Cross, Disaster Relief, Health, First-Aid, Road Safety, Fire Fighting, Social Service etc.,) Orientation Training Programmes and Study Camps for the benefit of YRC members of Colleges in all the 10 Universities, Anna University, Dr.M.G.R. Medical University and Dr.Ambedkar Law University will be periodically conducted as follows.