In partnership with the Philippine Red Cross, the Goducate Training Center (GTC) in San Miguel, Iloilo, is in its second year of helping others through blood donation. With the theme “Dugo Mo, Ibulig Mo” (Help others through your blood), a blood-donation day was held on June 15 in GTC’s multipurpose hall. An event of this kind kindles compassion in donors for others, and strengthens the spirit of volunteerism among those in the Goducate team and their allies.
Out of 29 interested donors from Goducate trainees, staff, and workers, and from the communities surrounding GTC area, 19 were deemed suitable donors
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What made this year’s blood-donation day remarkable was that the donors came not only from the Philippines but also from the United States, China, and Malaysia. It so happened that the American trainers at the Goducate Learning Center in China had accompanied their Chinese trainees to GTC to finish off their training to be community development workers. The Malaysian is a GTC trainee. This combination of donors led the organizers of this event to label it “GTC Bloodletting Activity Version 2.0- The International Version”.
*Our guest writer is Joanna De Leon
