The semi-annual blood drive from the grateful parents of a 3-year-old Ahwatukee girl with a chronic blood disorder will be held later this month.

The drive from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 30 at Desert Foothills United Methodist Church, 2156 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee, is sponsored by Kami and Matt Troutman as a way of giving back for the monthly transfusions their daughter, Adelyn, must get to stay alive.

Addy suffers a genetic affliction called Diamond-Blackfan anemia, which prohibits the creation of red blood cells. She must receive a monthly blood transfusion, while doctors simultaneously have to be on guard that those transfusions don’t lead to a deadly overdose of iron in her bloodstream.

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