Gabrielle Hoo is the youngest donor at the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS).
So in January, one year shy of her 17th birthday, the age required to give blood in Jamaica, the former Immaculate Conception High School student went to the NBTS on Slipe Pen Road with her father, who gave parental consent, allowing her to make her first donation.
Hoo noted that Gabrielle’s first time giving blood was not “a wonderful experience” but that the teenager was eager to try again and even brought the family along with her.
With two donations down, Hoo is on her way to joining other veteran donors and was one of 16 donors and advocates celebrated at the NBTS’s World Blood Donor Day ceremony on Monday.
Binns Lawrence became a consistent voluntary donor after she began working for the Blood Bank and now donates religiously every three months.
