Posted by Haagen P. Cumlet

GNBD's symposium (breakout session) on voluntary blood donation during the Rotary Internationl Convention in Montreal, Canada: Tuesday, 22 June 16:00–18:00 Palais des Congres de Montreal Room 525. 

Theme:

1) Africa;

2) getting young people involved as voluntary blood donors;

3) how to go from a single club blood drive project to a joint venture among several clubs and districts.  

Please, also visit our exhibition booth number 2004 in the House of Friendship.

Agenda  (Updated June 22)

 1)  Welcome and introduction of panellists

16:00  President Haagen Cumlet (GNBD President and Co-founder)

 2)  The next president of GNBD

16:05  PDG P.T. Prabhakar, GNBD President-elect, District 3220 (The future of the RAGs and GNBD)

  3)  Guest speaker

16:15  Sylvie Daigneault, Club25Society (CLUB 25, Young blood for the world)

  4)  Project speakers

16:45 President, Dr. Hassan Adelakun, Oke-Ona Egba Rotary Club, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. District 9110. (How to start a Rotary blood donor project in a culture without any tradition for voluntary blood donation.(Might include Rotaract's involvement in the blood project).

17:00  PP Warren Kaufman, Founder of The Safe Blood Africa Project, RC of Carmel Valley, District 5230, CA, USA. (Installing blood bank equipment in Nigerian hospitals; the start, status and future)

17:15  PDG Chuck Kurtzman, Founder of the Governors' Challenge Blood Drive, District 5790, Co-founder of GNBD; Vice President; (GCBD: From a single club to a multi district blood donor project)

 5)  Speaker

17:30 Dr. Cees Smit Sibinga (Donor retention through education, engaging university students in voluntary blood donation)   

 6)  Q & A

17:50  Moderator Dr. Cees Smit Sibinga

7)  Closing of session

18:00  President Haagen Cumlet.

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The symposium will serve as the GNBD Annual Meeting.