A-For-Reach Network, founded by Gregory L.Suffrin, is a donor recruitment agency that focuses on recruiting people for platelet donations in the general public for blood centers. Our company employs recruiters to develop a network of potential and eager donors to offer their platelets for enticements. Initially,we will offer a gift card worth $30 to donors for signing up todonate apheresis. Other
prizes down the line include local festivals and movie tickets, reward cards, gadgets and any other special items per donation. Donors may as well exchange their $30 gift card for additional points formore lucrative and rewarding items such as vacations, concerts, and entertainment parks. A-For-Reach is in the process of creating a social networking site with the domain nameGogo-platelets. It will offer repeat and fresh donors accessibility along with creating member profiles. Donorswill be able to upload their photos that they have participated in donating or having fun at a local A-For-Reach Network community events with friends and other donors. They will also be in a position of narrating their own story on how impactful donations has on other people and their own lives as well. The website will educate donors about platelets, regarding their functions in the body, the duration of time and the periods to donate. Additionally, other wonderful facts about aphaeresis will be available. The mantra behind the name A-For-Reach is by offering a part of your body that is so important, you deserve a grade of an A for possibly saving somebody’s life. Suffrinfounded the A-for-Reach Network after observing first hand at the shortage of platelets while in employment at a community BloodCenter for many years. Many health centers would either cancel or postpone their surgical procedures because of this rampant situation.Platelets are never at a adequate level that is comfortable enough for community hospitals and surgical centers not to worry about. This problem is prevalent throughout most of the blood centers regions in Florida. Gregory emphasize withthe situation by visualizing if he has a member of his family requiring platelets or being a patient himself. It is difficult to comprehend when a nurse enters your hospital room and informs of the postponement or cancellation of your operation due to the unavailability of platelets in the blood center. It is frightening and gut wrenching to handle such a situation. It is more upsetting to a family member or a patient when they hear the unpleasant news than the hospital staff themselves.Annoyedwith the procedures of the recruitment of donors, Gregory put his thinking cap on with this initiative and created A-For-Reach Network. Many issues appear as to why a number of individuals do not often donate or never at all. We are all aware of some people having aphobia of needles, though a number of instances is the lack of knowledge of the awareness of platelets and their purpose. Others expect an enticement for donating their sanctified part of their being. These individuals have a feeling that their parts and bodies are more expensive than a few movie tickets or a t-shirt. Regrettably, this does not suit many and the norm of donating to save lives. Unless there is a platelet sufferer in your family or someone close, that motto does not ring a bell with people across the globe. The surge of platelet use is because of the various health related aspects in people all over the globe. It is as well due to the different issues outlined above and the repeated words we hear repeatedly from so many individuals “I do not have time to spare”.
