Georgina
July 16, 2008 06:40 PM
By: Samantha Kovach
Even while they enjoy summer holidays, students and staff at Keswick and Our Lady of the Lake Catholic high schools are recalling how good it felt to give blood.
Canadian Blood Services of Canada visited both schools before classes finished.
“One unit goes to three people. It is an incredible thing to donate blood,”
clinic assistant Amanda Richardson said.
Fifty-six units were collected from staff and students, which means more than 160 people have a better chance of surviving.
“It was my first time giving blood. It felt good to know I am making a difference in the world,” Keswick High Grade 12 student Randy Robinson said.
“It is great to see so many students wanting to donate blood when they turn 17,” clinic volunteer Frank Tuttle said.
“They want to help save lives and that is amazing.”
You can donate blood in regular clinics anywhere, but this visit was special. It was the third clinic at Keswick High. Blood Services visits twice a year.
“I was really nervous, but it was great. It wasn’t as bad as I thought that it would be,” Grade 11 student Kelsey Rae said.
Keswick High has one of the highest donor attendance rates of any area high school, clinic co-ordinator Jennifer Mayhew said.