The Gift of Blood Campaign

1^st AOC: Tee Ke Ran

2^nd AOC: Leo Syafinas Ibrahim

Secretary: Leo Chan Pei Ling

Photography: Leo Chong Jia Sheng

Date : 27/4/2013
Time : 8.30am to 2.00pm
Venue : School Hall , SMK Damansara Jaya

           The Health Services Project entitled ‘A Gift of Blood Campaign’ started with an opening ceremony where Guests of Honour and Special Guests are invited to witness and initiate the event. At 8.30 am, the meeting was called to order by Leo Syafinas Ibrahim. Following that, the flag salutation and Leo Pledge are read by the emcee. The Guests of Honour are then invited onto stage to deliver their opening addresses. Souvenirs are then presented to the Guests of Honour, Special Guests, representatives from iHeal Medical Centre and representatives from The National Blood Bank. Finally, the Guests of Honour are invited onto stage again to initiate the event through an interesting act of defibrillating a volunteer.

            The blood drive commences at 9.00 am where a crowd of teachers, parents and Damansara Jaya residents enter the venue to give the gift of their blood as their social responsibility. The staff from the National Blood Bank took care of the blood transfusion and refreshments while Leo members and prefects from the afternoon session helped with the registration and presentation of incentives. 50 units of Zenne gas cookers are presented to the first 50 blood donors as an incentive to encourage more people to donate blood. Pictures are taken and forms for the gas cookers are filled out for documentation purposes by the sponsoring company. Leo members and prefects also prepared beverages for the blood donors and staffs who so kindly volunteered their services at our humble event.

            At 11.00 am, the staffs are invited to have their lunch at the hall foyer ordered from a caterer who gave us amazing discounts on account that the food is prepared for charity. Subsequently, the prefects, who willingly contributed their entire morning volunteering with the Leo members albeit needing to proceed immediately with their duty shifts, were invited to have their lunch at the foyer as well. At 11.15 am, we went on with the blood drive campaign up to around 1.30 pm. Finally, with the help of the prefects, Leo members and the staffs from the National Blood Bank, we prepared for the cleaning up of the venue and by 2.00 pm, everything was put back in order and cleaned. We bid the staff from the Blood Bank farewell and thanked them profusely for making this event a success.