GIVE BLOOD - GIVE LIFE

Students of Business Academy in Levice decided to do a really great volunteer activity. 10 students went to hospital and with the help of the organisation the Red Cross they donated their blood and helped people who need it.
Every minute of every day, someone needs blood. That blood can only come from a volunteer donor, a person like me oryou who makes the choice to donate. There is no substitute for your donation. Blood donations help millions of patients in need. To make the journey from “arm to arm,” every unit goes through series of steps and tests to ensure that it is as safe as can be.
When you make a blood donation, you join a very select group. Currently only 3 out of every 100 people in America donate blood. In Slovakia is the situation a little bit better. Blood donation has a long tradition in Slovakia. From its beginning, the organisation Red Cross has formed a community of service, of generous, strong and decent people bound by beliefs beyond themselves. The Red Cross blood donor embodies this principle.
Benefits of volunteering
• You will feel great knowing you are making a difference.
• You will meet donors and hear why they give blood or how blood transfusions have touched their lives. It may change your own.
• You can do good on your own schedule, volunteer as much as and as often as your schedule permits.
• You will enjoy flexible locations and times.
• You will become part of a 125-year-old tradition of neighbours helping neighbours in need.
We depend on volunteers
Volunteers constitute 96 percent of our total work force to carry on our humanitarian work:
• Every year the Red Cross responds to many disasters—including home fires every day.
• A lot of people turn to us to learn first aid, CPR, swimming, and other health and safety skills. Last year, several hundreds of people volunteered to teach those courses.
• Several volunteers serve as chairs, members of boards of directors, or on advisory boards for local Red Cross units - chapters, Blood Services regions