Amazing Story

Charlie knows the value of blood donation

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I arrived in New Zealand in May 2006, I was born in Malta GC, and my first donation was on the 9th of October 1995, I donated 39 times while I was in living in Malta, I still have the small, Blood Donor’s Booklet that you are given in Malta by the Blood Bank of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, that records your donations. I always wanted to continue donating blood in New Zealand, and on the 29th May 2013 started donating in NZ, always feel good that you know that I can save someone’s life, whenever I go to donate in my hometown Taupo, I always take my young boy with me and tell him that when his time will come he will do the same as his old man.

Submitted: 2018-06-12

Donor

Waikato

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