Teamwork was on full display at Claremont Secondary School in Saanich on Monday, after students teamed up to help save lives by donating blood.

Grade 12 student Ben Pawluk knows the importance of blood donations after he was diagnosed with cancer when he was 17.

“You never really know when you’re going to need blood, it just kind of happens,” he said.

Pawluk helped rally his fellow classmates and teachers to donate blood on their lunch hour since the Saanich teen was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma and needed blood in the past.

“It was really scary, to be honest with you. Hard on my family,” he said.

“I had five transfusions.”

He’s in now remission and also on a mission.

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