Wednesday, April 30, 2014

As they describe themselves, Donner Sang Compter (DSC) is a “non-profit non-governmental organization which promotes responsible citizenship through raising awareness on and encouraging safe blood transfusions in Lebanon by organizing blood drives in universities, companies and public places in partnership with most hospitals in Lebanon” whose purpose is to “link blood donors to patients in need”.

Since our blog is committed to the welfare of the Lebanese society, it is our duty to introduce the work of DSC to the ones who have not heard of it yet.

Yorgui Teyrouz, the founder and CEO of Donner Sang Compter, shared with us the goals and missions of the organization.

“We aim to change the role approach of blood donation from Replacement Donation to Voluntary Donation; in this way, the donor will participate just for the act of it, without knowing with whom he is sharing his blood.
Voluntary donation makes the whole difference, it’s a source of safety, fun, equality and it is better ethically speaking.”

“We need time to build a blood donating culture, in which the patient’s family doesn't feel the pressure of securing blood units to replace the one’s their patient needs from the hospital’s blood bank.”

“We have 12000 registered donors with 6000 to 7000 always ready to donate, and the organization’s number is spread at all the hospitals.”

“Finance is a big problem, the cost of running the organization is huge and 70 to 80% of our time is consumed in finding ways to funding our work instead of thinking of the new campaigns. We rely on two principle ways:
  • Selling Blood Brother Bracelets: available in all Malik's bookshop branches!(5000LL per bracelet).
  • An annual evening at Skybar.

We refuse to take money from the patient’s families; instead we ask them spread awareness.”

“We introduced a Mobile Blood Bank that tours Lebanon to collect blood from all the regions. We carried out many blood drives to universities. We now own only one bus but we need 3 to cover the whole country but each bus costs about 60000$ apart from the running cost.We also need volunteers to work on the ground and to help us with the campaigns.”



DSC's Mobile Blood Bank
You can watch DSC's introduction to the Mobile Blood Bank at the following link:



Yorgui wants to change the whole blood donation system in Lebanon because securing blood is important but not sufficient, for that matter he quotes Denis Diderot: “Il ne suffit pas de faire le bien, il faut encore le bien faire”.

Donner Sang Compter, you are doing it right. Keep up the good work and the system will surely change.

Connect with Donner Sang Compter:
Phone
03 314 868
Email
Website

Abir Lebbos

Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 by ChiTikTik

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"Happy" is easily one of my favorite songs this year. It's very positive and energetic and can change your mood in a second.
It's performed and written by American singer Pharrell Williams from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack album. 
Check below the many videos of the song and tell us which one you prefer.
P.S.:  Remember to be always HAPPY :)

1) The official music video


2) "Despicable Me 2" short video (my personal favorite)



3) Happy, Lebanese Version


Lyrics

It might seem crazy what I’m about to say
Sunshine she’s here, you can take a break
I’m a hot air balloon that could go to space
With the air, like I don’t care baby by the way

Because I’m happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I’m happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I’m happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I’m happy
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do

Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah,
Well, give me all you got, and don’t hold it back, yeah,
Well, I should probably warn you I’ll be just fine, yeah,
No offense to you, don’t waste your time
Here’s why

Hey, come on

(happy)
Bring me down
Can't nothing bring me down
My level's too high
Bring me down
Can't nothing bring me down
I said (let me tell you now)
Bring me down
Can't nothing bring me down
My level's too high
Bring me down
Can't nothing bring me down
I said

Hey, come on

(happy)
Bring me down… can’t nothing…
Bring me down… my level's too high…
Bring me down… can’t nothing…
Bring me down, I said (let me tell you now)

Come on

Abir

Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 by ChiTikTik

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

I am not a big fan of football.. But this is a news that really dazzled me!
A Villarreal supporter threw a banana on him during the game. Dany Alves just took the banana with a cold blood and ate it and continued the match…
I was amazed by how he transformed a negative feeling into a positive one…what a great life lesson.


Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by ChiTikTik

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What the hell, Clooney is engaged to a BRITISH Lawyer Amal Alamuddin! The news is everywhere and all the girls are mourning for this great loss.


I don’t know about you, but the Word “Amal” seems very Arabic to me and I don’t think that the family name “Alamuddin” exists in the Oxford dictionary.


I really don’t think it is a big deal to have Clooney as the son in law of a Lebanese Family and I'm not particularly interested in his love life, but I can’t stand how silly media is. If anything wrong happens in any place in this world, they will start searching for the Arabic roots on the ones involved, but when Clooney got engaged to a Lebanese woman, she suddenly becomes British.

Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by ChiTikTik

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