Phoenix Wedding Photographer shoots United Blood Services media event

As most of you probably already know, in addition to Photography, I also have a “day job” working for the marketing department of United Blood Services.

Today we hosted a media event at Phoenix Children’s Hospital to launch our “Drive Away a Hero” Saturn car raffle campaign sponsored by the Phoenix area Saturn Retailers. Saturn has generously stepped in and offered us a 2007 Saturn Aura to be raffled off to one lucky blood donor this summer. Campaigns like this help United Blood Services to motivate people to GIVE BLOOD, allowing us to meet the needs of Arizona hospital patients. And the need is BIG! It takes about 700 blood donors A DAY to support our hospitals.

In hopes of getting the word out about the campaign, we hosted a birthday party for all the patients and families in the 2nd floor Cancer Unit. We brought a bunch of toys, treats and our mascot “Ubie” to hang out with kids for the afternoon. Most of the kids were too sick from their Chemo treatments to come and hang out in the playroom where we were hosting the party, so we also went around to some of their rooms to say hi and hand out toys. So many of these kids have had blood transfusions to help them keep their strength during their treatments. Doing events like this helps remind all of us why blood donation is so important. Here’s a couple of shots from the day.

GIVE BLOOD, BE A HERO. For more information on blood donation, please visit http://www.unitedbloodservices.org/Arizona