• Every two seconds someone in America needs blood.
• More than 38,000 pints of blood are needed in the U.S. every day.
• Only 38 percent of the population is eligible to donate and just a fraction of those eligible—about 8 percent—actually donate blood.
• The need for blood is constant and the blood supply must be regularly replenished. That is why it is so important that generous donors like you give regularly.
• The very young, from the tiniest of preemies in a hospital’s neonatal unit, to an elderly patient suffering from a blood disorder, all benefit from blood’s life-sustaining qualities.
• Some of the reasons people need blood transfusions are:

-Surgery
-Car accidents
-Cancer
-Sickle Cell Disease
-Premature birth

• Almost all serious health issues use blood donated by people like you and me to save lives.
• Your blood could save a baby, a child, a mother, a father, a grandfather, a grandmother.