Sau Vic National Blood Drive

[Longinus]

When: Saturday 26 October 2013

Where: Any Blood Donation Centre

Who: Anybody is welcome!

Why: To save lives!!!

SAU is holding a national Blood Drive day to provide blood to those in need! We are aiming for 150 donations nationally!

Get on board this great cause and show your support!

One donation can save three lives!

Are you eligible? Check this link:

http://www.donateblood.com.au/who-can-give/am-i-eligible

The process is simple.

* Find your local centre and make a booking to donate

* Fill out the forms and put SAU VIC as your club name

* It will take roughly one hour to donate blood.

* Food and drink will be provided by the centre.

Find your nearest blood donation centre:

http://www.donateblood.com.au/ready-to-donate/donor-centre/search?terms=3000

Some things to keep in mind.

* You will have needed to eat and drink in the 3 hours leading up to it.

* No overseas travel in the last 4 months.

* No tattoos and some other needles in the last 6 months.

* Be in healthy condition (no colds or flus).

For more information on what you need to do on the day, read this page:

http://www.donateblood.com.au/ready-to-donate/what-happens

If you want to donate, download the pledge form here:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzW8IAb60h3FdEk0ejlwX1JCYjQ/edit?usp=sharing

Skylines Australia's National tally results can be seen here:

http://www.donateblood.com.au/who-can-give/club-red/view-group-tally?group_id=6148

ANYBODY and EVERYBODY is welcome. Invite your friends, family and pen pals! The more donations we get, the more lives SAU saves!

If you are willing to spare an hour and save a life. Please email the club on: [email protected]

Show your support to the other states (and also let's get more donations than them! haha)

New South Wales

Queensland

South Australia

Victorian's donating:

1. Longinus

2. AGE

3. Odium

4. You?

[t5iv]

Tony from QLD likes this.

[xALmoN]

I will be there. not sure where my red cross card is though.

[Longinus]

Details updated. We are looking for more people to donate! If you can spare one hour of your day to help save a life, let us know!

[Leroy Peterson]

Will see closer to the date if I'm available.

Also want to point out that while the Red Cross does keep blood reserves for hospitals & emergencies, most of it is sold/auctioned off for medical research. I just dont like being lied to, especially all this 'your donation saved 3 lives' as oppose to 'your blood can be used to save up to 3 lives, or used to contribute to ground breaking medical research'

[Longinus]

Ah, I had no idea. Either way, donating is for a good cause. Hope to see you there Liam

[AGE]

Yep i'm in!!

[Odium]

I'm in at this stage

[Longinus]

Awesome!

However due to a lack of interest and support, we must give up the Airport West location as we couldn't fulfill the (optimistic) booking we made.

Instead, everybody is encouraged to donate at their own convenience and do it for Skylines Australia! As you can see here, we have a national tally going on and QLD is kicking ass! All you have to do is book yourself into a local centre, donate and put SAU VIC as the club.

For those interested in donating, download the pledge form here.

Cheers

[t5iv]

Sad to hear that you guys had to pull the pin on this. Great cause but if you haven't got the numbers, then oh well.

We've got 10 going in today - well under expected predictions but that's still 10 donors.

Shall be keeping an eye on the club red tally.