Contributing Blood and Earning Goodwill
By Zaheer.Jan
z.jan@verizon.net


On December 9, 2004, my wife was invited to a function to honor people who work at the Blood Bank of New York and New Jersey.

The function was held at the Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, and attended by CEOs of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies. The evening was awe-inspiring as person

after person was recognized for his/her role in gathering, processing, preserving and distributing life-giving/life-saving human blood.

Watching the event I thought that Muslims as a group could join the noble cause of blood donation. We could invite the Blood Services to every single mosque throughout the nation on 5 to 6 Fridays of the year, and hold ‘Blood Drives’.

Imagine our contribution in saving lives and the goodwill that this act would generate in return.

I will be more than happy to ask my wife, who is a very active volunteer in the field of blood collection, to get in touch with concerned authorities.

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