Hooray to Lend a Hand!

Lend a Hand did an awesome job organizing the drives in Houston this past Sunday. LAH volunteers created posters and flyers and spoke on local radio stations. All of their hard work really paid off because they ended the day with 244 Vietnamese people registered! A Gulf Coast Blood Center recruiting coordinator sent an email afterwards and wrote "I wanted to see what the Houston donor center has done in the past. Houston has registered a total of 542 Vietnamese, since 1991. From Jan. of 2006 to Jan. of 2007, we only registered 97. Needless to say, you all were very successful this weekend!"

I am ecstatic about LAH's success! In just one day, LAH increased the Vietnamese donor count in Houston (that took about 16 years to build) by almost 50%. LAH is not stopping yet either. More drives are in the works and LAH is hoping to get hundreds more to register.

Bravo LAH. One of these days I would love to meet you and give you all big bear hugs!

Isn't it amazing what people can do when they come together to fight for a cause???

P.S. Project Michelle has helped register 1524 people total! :D