Location:
Global Blood Donors
Category:
Common Interest
Team URL:
http://www.kiva.org/team/team_red
We loan because:
Bloodlink Foundation is OBI's first Global Blood Fund donor center. Bloodlink works with six blood transfusion centers in Kenya. DID YOU KNOW: In Kenya, an estimated six patients in medical institutions die from blood related transfusion complications every hour. ••• Kenya needs 200,000 blood products annually. Its centers currently provide just 130,000 products, a deficit of 70,000 products. ••• 60 percent of the blood collected comes from school children -- ages 16 and up. ••• 55 percent of blood donated is used to treat anemia in children and mothers during pregnancy and child birth.
About us:
globalbloodfund.org
Check out:
www.obi.org/bloodfacts/bloodfacts.html
Team Since:
Oct 8, 2008

Impact of Team Red - Blood Donors

Statistic Name Graph Total Impact
Number of Team Members 9
Number of Loans 23
Number of Loans per Member 2.6
Total Amount Loaned $575
*Team statistics updated daily

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