GIVEfest Summertime Blood & Food Drive Set for August 30
Saturday, August 06, 2016
Rhode Island PBS, the Rhode Island Blood Center and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank have partnered to create a special summertime giving opportunity GIVEfest to help serve the community.
The event will take place on Tuesday, August 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the packing lot of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
2 Ways to Give
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThere are two ways to give at the event.
People are invited to donate a pint of blood and bring a non perishable food item. Those who can not donate, a food donation alone is welcome.
Blood donors must be at least 16 years old, and parental consent is required. Minimum weight for donors 17 years and older is 110 lbs; minimum weight for 16 year olds is 130 lbs.
Non-perishable food items collected during this event help feed more than 60,000 Rhode Islanders who visit various food pantries across the state every month. Gifts of food items during the event will help the Food Bank reach its Summer Food Drive goal to collect 150,000 pounds of food by August 31.
RI Blood Center
The Rhode Island Blood Center has supplied hospitals and patients in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts and Connecticut with lifesaving blood components for more than three decades. Over the last 37 years, much has changed in blood banking and transfusion medicine, but the fundamental concept of volunteer blood donors providing the gift of life for patients in need is as important as ever.
The need does become more acute during the summer when regular donors - including college students - are away on vacation.
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