Sakhisizwe -Building the Nation - Bou Die Nasie

The Western Cape blood service is a non-profit organisation which supports all communities in the region by supplying them with safe blood products as well as safe blood. Here today to give us more information about the importance of blood donations is the Cooperate Public Relations officer at the Western Cape Blood service, Michelle Vermeulen .  The Western Cape Blood Services main focus is to make sure that there is enough safe and sufficient blood in the Western Cape for those who are in need of it, as well as having enough blood banks being opened. Even though they focus on collecting enough safe blood for the Western Cape, the biggest problem is that they are dependent on people, since they need authentic and not artificial blood . The organisations main issue is that not many people care nor think about donating while others are aware about donations, but just do not donate. Their are people who donate blood occasionally, but will not be able to due to religion, si

Lesley Burns is an occupational therapist; she has been in the field for more than twenty years with experience in the assessment of adults with all kinds of physical, cognitive and psychological problems. Lesley has added a workshop on understanding and managing mental illness in the workplace to her services. This is due to the increasing causes of disability in the workplace worldwide being due to conditions such as depression and anxiety and still having those be the most misunderstood condition. We spoke to her in depth about mental illness. She firstly began with highlighting that there are numerous mental illness, close to 300 types. Although many employers provide counselling services, many people still feel ashamed to use the services, because then people will know that they are suffering with a mental illness. Unlike cancer or any other disease, mental illness carries a stigma attached to it. Some people still view people with mental illness as being crazy and unpred