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The American Red Cross urges eligible donors to give blood in August and help meet the constant need for blood products by patients.

Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. Summer is an especially difficult time to collect enough blood to meet the needs of hospital patients.

Despite travel and other activities that may cause some donors to be less available to give, the Red Cross must collect 15,000 blood donations every day to meet the needs of patients at approximately 2,600 hospitals and transfusion centers across the country.

With more summer days ahead, every blood donation is important in helping ensure blood is available for patients in need, and volunteer donors are the only source of blood for those who need it.

Donors of all blood types – especially those with types AB, O negative, A negative and B negative – are needed to help ensure blood products are available to hospital patients this summer.

The blood donations for August in the Forsyth County area are as follows:

Bethania

• Aug. 5 from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Bethania Moravian Church, 5545 Main St.

Kernersville

• Aug. 3 from 2 to 6:30 p.m. at Kernersville Wesleyan Church/Family Life Center, 930 N. Main St.

• Aug. 10 from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 9856 McNeil Road

• Aug. 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 401 Oakhurst St.

• Aug. 11 from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 401 Oakhurst St.

• Aug. 14 from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Con-way Freight, 438 W. Bodenhamer St.

Lewisville

• Aug. 11 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Kaplan Early Learning Company, 1310 Lewisville-Clemmons Road

Winston-Salem

• Aug. 6 from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Medical Center Blvd.

• Aug. 6 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Wake Forest Baptist Health, 1920 W. 1st St.

• Aug. 7 from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Medical Center Blvd.

• Aug. 8 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Piney Grove Baptist Church, 4633 Grove Garden Dr.

• Aug. 13 from 3 to 7:30 p.m. at Ardmore Baptist Church, 501 Miller St.

• Aug. 14 from 2 to 6:30 p.m. at Christ Wesleyan Church, 2390 Union Cross Road

The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation’s blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families.

The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission.

To make an appointment to give blood, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org, visit us on Twitter at @RedCross or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).