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Brian's Story
Date: 1 January 2008 I'd heard that giving blood can save lives and now I know it. read the full story

Liberty's Story
Date: 1 January 2008 Seven year old Liberty Taylor and her family want to say thank you to the blood donors that gave her 'go-go juice' to help her fight against Leukaemia. Seeing the change the blood transfusions made, her mother Melissa Taylor knew Liberty would not have made it without the blood. read the full story

Joshua's Story
Date: 1 January 2008 Eight year old Aucklander, Joshua Baxter, depends on blood transfusions every four weeks simply to live. He is the only person to survive in the past eight years in New Zealand with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). read the full story

Rupert's Story
Date: 1 January 2008 Maybe they're famous - like Abraham Lincoln or Sir Edmund Hillary - or maybe they're not. Ten-year-old Rupert Gyton has nearly two dozen heroes he's never met, seen or heard of, but all of those New Zealanders are unsung heroes in his eyes because they saved the most important thing to him. His life. read the full story

Lucy's Story
Date: 1 January 2008 There’s a blood donor walking around in Auckland who has no idea how much joy he or she has brought to a grateful Nelson family. read the full story