On St. Valentine's Day, 14th February, 2008, Marian Academy hosted the first blood drive by a school in the history of Guyana. This drive was in collaboration with The Guyana Red Cross and The National Blood Transfusion Service. The idea of hosting a drive at a school was to educate the children on the importance of giving blood and on how they could be a hero by simply encouraging someone else to donate blood or volunteer with a blood drive.
This resulted in 99 family members and friends of our school's students and teachers being prepared to give blood and a total of 77 units of blood being collected, the largest blood drive in Guyana!The Principal along with teachers and 19 students were all donors on that wonderful day!
Family members also donated enough snacks to feed the donors and to supply Red Cross for a few more of their monthly blood drives.
The school received a plaque of achievement and three certificates were distributed as follows:Child that had the most donors: Mickelly RahamanHouse that had the most donors: Our Lady of GuadeloupeClass that had the most donors: 4/F
Other than the plaque and certificates, a few people were specially thanked but there were so many more that the list would have been too long to mention every one. The students played a huge role from beginning to end, the seniors made decorations and posters, and helped with the organisation, the primary made beautiful 'thank you' for our donors.
Through this drive we hope to achieve the education of life saving! A life savers club will be formed at Marian academy of which over 50 senior students have already shown interest. This will begin in the new term.
We look forward to next year when we can do this again with much more experience!!!
By
Mrs.Nicky Mendes
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