June: Blood Donor Month.

Blood Donor Month.

"¨Achieving 100 percent non-remunerated donation of blood and blood components¨

Millions of people around the world owe their lives to individuals they will never meet – people who donate their blood to help others. But millions more still can’t get safe blood when they need it. World Blood Donor Day, celebrated on June 14 every year, provides a unique opportunity to thank those very special people that help and to raise awareness about the need for more support.

Established by the World Health Assembly, this day marks the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the Nobel laureate who discovered the ABO blood group system. There is broad international support to raise awareness of the need for safe blood around the world and encourage eligible individuals to donate blood regularly so that blood is readily available for all who need it when required."

(World Health Organization)

http://www.who.int/worldblooddonorday/en/index.html

Blood Donor Month is celebrated every year in June with the main event being World Blood Donor Day which is celebrated internationally on the 14th June.

If you haven't donated in a while, this might be the month for you: when you are being celebrated:

We do not endorse the following articles from the SANBS, use at your own risk:

Can I donate:
http://www.sanbs.org.za/new_donors/NewDon_CanI_malaria.htm

Pre-donation tips
http://www.sanbs.org.za/newdonors_preDon.htm

Post donation tips
http://www.sanbs.org.za/new_donors/NewDon_Post.htm


Finding a blood clinic:

http://www.sanbs.org.za/Where_Donate/where_Donate.htm

Hey, if you would like to find about more about Sideroblastic Anaemia, what living with it is like, the problems I experience and am currently experiencing, treatment etc.
Then go to my new blog http://sidanaemia.blogspot.com/ which covers all of that and more!
This one is mainly to recruit more people to donate blood whereas the other one is specifically about Sideroblastic Anaemia.

Bye for now, and keep donating :)

Thanx

Hey all :)

I'd just like to say a quick thank you to all who have been donating lately, it means a lot to me.
By the way anyone is welcome to contact me for more information about this cause via the facebook group or my e-mail address kr7937@gmail.com.

Reminder: Carry on donating :) and tell all your friends about the facebook group and this blog.

My goal is to get 100 new donors during this year of 2009.

Kari Reynolds

SA Blood Bank "Running Dry"- IOL

Infromation posting by Marc Aupiais

According to an article in IOL, the South African Blood Bank ("SANBS": "South African National Blood Service"), desperately needs blood.

There is only one day's supply of blood currently in stocks!

c.f

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=125&art_id=nw20090114161610685C282098

Back To School: Donation Drive

"Hey all,

now a lot of us go back to school this week, that's why it's called back to school week..

I ask you to take a short amount of time out of your busy lives, to stop and think about all the people you could help with just one donation. (One donation can go toward saving four different lives)

So as we go back to school this week, let's make a back to school commitment to allow someone else to go back to school as well by giving them the gift of life.

So take some time out of your week to go and donate blood, saving a life.

Let's try and get 50 commitments (50 yes replies to this event) and save countless lives this week!!!

WE CAN ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!"
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=73179050008
"Location:
The blood donation centre closest to you.
Street:
Go to the website for your country if you don't know where the nearest 1 is"
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=73179050008

To find your local clinic, follow:

http://www.sanbs.org.za/Where_Donate/where_Donate.htm

Welcome to this site

Article by Marc Aupiais

This is after a successful facebook movement was started to help increase efforts, and I have volunteered to set up this blog for that movement. They seem to be affecting the world in a way, and I hope they use this to do so also. Please subscribe, even to simply alerts, of when a post or such is made here!

I am not the major person on this site, simply helped to set it up for a cause; of a friend, who is passionate on this important issue. They hope to keep you up to date on donation issues, and to raise awareness via facebook. Their facebook group certainly attempts to do so!

I wish them good luck, and Godspeed(good tides etc) in their attempts.

Please join the facebook group, and help create awareness on this issue!