Blood Donation Campaign 4 December 2011

As our PP Ong KS has repeatedly said, we, the RC Sri Petaling has been very busy lately, with many projects lined up till the end of last year.  One of those projects, namely the Blood Donation Campaign, was one that we specially planned for the Sri Petaling community.  

The blood donation drive was held on the 4th December 2011 at The Store at Sri Petaling.  It started off a bit later than planned, but nevertheless, the crowd catched on quickly to make up for the loss time.  By 11:00am, the donors had already lined up at the registration counter.  Very soon, we realized the chairs were not even enough for the crowd to sit and wait for their turn.  We have to apologise for that.

Many of the experienced donors came prepared.  They knew exactly what to expect and patiently waiting for their turn.  There were also many "freshies" who experience the joy of giving, in this case, to save lives.  Whoever they were, they all came in with big hearts.  Thank you!

We were expecting a turn up of 40 to 50 donors, but that mark had been breached by lunch time.  The crowd was building up at the registration counter and we had to do some last minute adjustment to the registration and screening procedures in order to make the wait a little more pleasant.

The doctors, nurses and technicians from the National Blood Bank were working through lunch, until we insisted that they take a break.  They took turns to have their very short lunch breaks, but that did not disrupt the whole operation because they covered for one another.  Good job!


The whole blood donation drive was supposed to end at 5:00pm, but there were always surprises.  The response had been so good that all the storage boxes have been filled to the brim by 4:00pm.  Without the ice boxes, blood donated would be wasted.  So we had to reluctantly stopped the campaign at about 4:30pm.  As much as we hated to, we had to turn away donors who came in "late".  At the end of the day, we collected 72 packets of life-saving blood!


It was another well-done project, thanks to all the members, spouses, Interactors from SMK Sri Saujana, and all the general public who walked in to support and to donate blood.  We were overwhelmed by your unselfish act!

FINAL UPDATE: 1 MILLION BOTTLES OF DRINKING WATER TO THAILAND FLOOD VICTIMS

The fund raising exercise to buy 1 million bottles of drinking water to the Thailand flood victims has been successfully completed.  With our Project OC PE Amus Loo handing over the last batch of donation ( RM5030.00) over to DGN Sanguan Kunaporn of D3330 on the 15 December 2011 in Hatyai, Thailand, the whole event has finally come to an end.


In total, Rotary Club of Sri Petaling has collected RM20,030.00.  Raising this amount in such a short period is a true reflection of how loving and caring our donors are.  A big SALUTE to all the donors and, on behalf of all the flood victims in Thailand who benefited from your generosity, RC Sri Petaling would like to express our greatest gratitude to you.  THANK YOU!

RC Sri Petaling Blood Donation Campaign

RC Sri Petaling is organising a Blood Donation Campaign on the 4 December 2011.  The location is inside The Store shopping centre at Bandar Baru Sri Petaling.  Please join us to replenish the stock at the National Blood Bank. 

The Passing Away of Our Past President Henry Soh

The members of the Rotary Club of Sri Petaling are at a lost of words on the sudden demise of our Past President Henry Soh Kok Kiong on the 24th November 2011 in Brunei.  May his soul rest in peace.

His remain will be placed at Xiao En Centre today 1 December 2011.  There will be a prayer at 7pm on 1 December 2011 (Thursday) and another prayer at 9 am on 2 December 2011 (Friday).  The funeral will begin at 11 am on 2 December 2011, proceeding to Nilai Memorial Park.

Xiao En Centre 

No 1, Jalan Kuari Cheras 56100
Kuala Lumpur

UPDATE 2: 1 MILLION BOTTLES OF DRINKING WATER TO THAILAND FLOOD VICTIMS

With the generous contribution from our members, friends and associates, the Rotary Club of Sri Petaling, as of 22 November 2011, have collected RM15,950.00.  Please continue to support our effort to help our neighbour and we would like to see the figure break the RM 20,000.00 mark.

UPDATES ON THE 1 MILLION BOTTLES OF DRINKING WATER TO THAILAND

Dear All,

This is the latest news from Rotary Clubs of South Thailand who organized the " 1 Million Bottle drinking water" to the Bangkok Flood disaster victims project.

They had send out 40,000 bottles drinking water yesterday and will be arrived in Bangkok tomorrow.

Rotary Club Of Sri Petaling has transferred in total of around 150,000.00 Thai Bath (RM15,000.00) to the organizer chair person District Governor Nominee Mr Sanguan to support this meaningful project and we are really appreciate to all of you who help to raise the above mentioned fund.

We will keep on the fund raising and hopefully more fund will come in within this 2 weeks.

Please check the link , the whole drinking water factory is rushing to produce  1 million bottles of drinking water to the disaster victims....

Thank you,

Yours in Rotary

PE Amus Loo 

RCSP

Donation for “1 million Bottles” Rotary drinking water to Thai Flood victims 2011

Recently, the worst flood disaster has hit Thailand and everyone is short of clean drinking water. To make matter worse, the large water bottle manufacturers in Bangkok have been hard hit and would take a period of time before they can resume their production. However, those manufacturers in Districts that are unaffected have pooled their resources and have agreed to produce 600cc bottles of water with Rotary Logo with words of “1 million bottles” Rotary water to supply to those in need.

As such, as partners with our Rotary sister & friendship Club in Thailand, we have embarked on a campaign to raise the money for this “1 million Bottles.” We need your contribution to ease the shortage of drinking water in the flood hit areas.
Every Ringgit contributed will be given to our Thai Rotary Counterpart and a receipt will be issued from us to show that we are accountable for the funds coming in.

Give generously for a good cause.

Thank you for your kind donation.


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The latest update on the donation:


RC Sri Petaling has collected more than RM15,000 for this project.  We have sent RM5,000 to Thailand and we are in the process of sending another RM5,000 this week.


We will continue to collect donation for this project until the 30 November 2011.


A big thank you to all the donors.

Please feel free to read up the latest report from our sister club from the following link to find out how our donated fund is being used to provide some relief to the flood victims.


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