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Just one blood donation can save three people’s lives, but only two per cent of Berkshire’s blood donors are from the black community. In this extract, Â鶹Éç Berkshire’s Louise Chandler adds her blood to the bank and Dominic Sutherland, lead donor relations manager for NHS blood donation service in Berkshire, explains why the work to attract donors never stops... This comes in the same week a Labour MP called for a Bill to make it a duty on schools and colleges to educate children of the benefits of blood, organ and bone marrow donation. For illnesses more prevalent in black people, like Sickle Cell Anaemia, it's vital that blood is ethnically matched.