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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Big Fresno Fair is offering donors a escaped summons voucher with the acquisition of 1 summons aft donating blood, but it is astir intolerable to genuinely quantify however overmuch donated humor is worthy to humor banks similar the Central California Blood Center - almost.
YourCentralValley.com crunched immoderate numbers and spoke to ambassador Tony Sosa to find the imaginable worth of your adjacent donation.
Sosa says helium knows archetypal manus the worth of a pint aft a car mishap astir took his life.
"If it wasn't for those donations I wouldn't beryllium present talking to people, doing interviews," Sosa said.
After his beingness was saved by humor donations, Sosa decided to enactment with the Central California Blood Center to promote others to prevention lives by emphasizing conscionable however acold a pint tin go.
"One big saves 3 different adults, and it saves six children's lives," Sosa said. "So 1 pint tin prevention a batch of lives."
According to the Big Fresno Fair, the "Pint for a Pass" promotion helped cod over 6,800 donations successful 2023, meaning astatine the precise slightest 20,400 adults oregon 40,800 children perchance had their lives saved by humor donations.
In the 13 twelvemonth past of the promotion, the Big Fresno Fair says the promotion has helped cod 124,000 pints of blood. That overmuch humor has the imaginable to prevention implicit 300,000 big lives and 700,000 children's lives.
Sosa says nary substance who you are, you excessively tin payment from donated blood, from large women, men, children, adjacent babies, nary 1 is exempt from needing a donation.
The Pint for a Pass volition proceed done Oct. 14, those funny successful donating tin find their nearest Central California Blood Center humor slope here.
