One family relies on blood donations to keep their 2-year-old’s heart pumping. Like every 2-year-old, Henry Soileau loves to play. “He likes to be outside, run around. He’s very independent, so he wants to do everything himself, if he wants to do something, he wants to help,” describes Ryan Soileau,
Flight Lieutenant Sam Edwards recently notched up his 50th blood donation in Melbourne as part of the Defence Blood Challenge. With the challenge wrapping up on December 8, he is hoping his desire to help others will motivate the like-minded to also roll up their sleeves and donate life-saving blood.
After his twin brother Calder Wills died from cancer, Grayson Wills made it his goal to donate more blood than the 40 units his brother received throughout treatment. Grayson Wills, now a 17-year-old senior at Iowa City City High School, is the latest University of Iowa DeGowin Blood Center Gallon
For Sudesh Ramakant Narvekar, blood donation started off as an immediate response to save an accident victim’s life, but he has since helped thousands in need and recently donated blood for the 100th time. Popularly known as the “blood man” of Goa, the 51-year-old has donated blood during medical emergencies
Throughout his life, Brad Morter donated 108 gallons of blood. When he died unexpectedly, his family decided to honor his memory by paying it forward. The Brad Morter Memorial Blood Drive was first held last year, and it returned on Wednesday. The goal is to mirror Morter’s lifetime donation total
Donating blood is an anonymous gift, and most of the time, the gift receiver never meets the gift giver, but they did on Monday at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens in Jamaica. Shatera Weaver is an educator who has sickle cell disease and is hospitalized seasonally to receive blood transfusions. Christine
A blood donor ambassador for the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Services (KNBTS), Alpha Sanya, on Friday, September 23, donated his historic 100th pint of blood at the Nakuru regional blood centre. Sanya started donating blood in 1983 when he was a Form Three student at Jamhuri High School in Nairobi
