Help Sickle Cell Patients By Donating Blood

Camp Jumoke will be sponsoring a blood donation clinic
 at 67 College St. 
(Toronto, Ontario Canada )

Thursday, February 28^th ,2008  
from 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm, 
and then from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

We need your help to make sure that there is an adequate blood supply for 
Sickle Cell patients who require blood transfusions.

Many Sickle Cell patients are treated with blood transfusions to relieve their “crisis”.  When a patient needs a blood transfusion, a compatible blood type is required. 

In the case of Sickle Cell, the extent of the match may need to be more precise.  The precise matching for special antigens is called phenotyping.

The largest number of compatible donors for Sickle Cell patients is within the Black community.
  Canadian Blood Services offers a special typing service
to identify donations for use in treating Sickle Cell patients.

For further information, please contact Canadian Blood Services at 1-888-2-Donate.

The best way to help Sickle Cell patients is to increase the number of phenotyped blood donors from the Black community.

Please join us at the blood donation clinic on February 28^th.

On behalf of the children, THANK YOU!