muslims for life how do we go about collecting thousands of pints of blood?
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Why do a Blood Drive?
• Khilafat and Nizam-i-Jamaat• Wakes up jamaat members (internal)• One of the best ways to introduce jamaat to
community (external)
How to Start?
• Pray for success– Encourage jamaat and team members especially
• Write to Hazur• Offer extra prayers
How to Form Teams?
• Involve members by having many teams• Appoint team leaders with 2-6 people working
with them• Have a core team of 3-4 team leaders
Follow Up Work
• Frequent meetings-face to face/teleconference– Lead and guide discussion but involve everyone in
decision process– Develop plan– Assign tasks
• Be the driver in the process• Follow-up with team leaders frequently
Sponsorship
• Set up meetings with blood collection agencies, sponsors– Core team
• Involve them in the collection effort• Try to set up sponsorship with blood collection
agency, prominent organizations– Adds credibility– Use sponsors to help you
Meetings with sponsors
• In meeting briefly explain– Ahmadiyya Muslim Community– Aim of MFL– Obtain suggestions of other potential sponsors– Find out about existing blood drives– Ideas for new blood drives
Organizations
• Colleges and schools are great locations–Week long blood drives at larger colleges
• Religious Centers• Civic centers• Fire and Police Departments
How to get the high numbers
• Average blood drive will collect 20-50 units• Multiple blood drives• Large blood drives– Stadium– Logistics