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.”
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.”
You can watch DSC's
introduction to the Mobile Blood Bank at the following link:
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DSC's Mobile Blood Bank
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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
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03 314 868
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Email
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Website
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Abir Lebbos
