Meet the Pep-Talkers...

Pep-Talkers!? The BMC-NVBSP has it all. The team is composed of med techs and nurses as Blood Donor Recruiters. Each has its own forte of topic and target agencies to orient on Voluntary Blood Donation.
Headed by our very own, young and energetic Dr. Raymund Ibarrientos, he always see to it that all the things needed for MBD and advocacy is set before departure. Mar Chavez as Blood Program Coordinator schedules all activities of NVBSP and coordinates with all the staff regarding the operation from paper works to actual deployment of personnel.
Our BB Nurse coordinator, Joemy Carpo, sometimes addressed as “Tatay” Joemy, maybe because of his fatherly persona, is responsible for all the leg-working and follow ups of the requests of the different municipalities, barangays and NGO,s wherein we have MOA’s on Blood Program.”Hindi pwedeng hindi, lahat pwede”, that’s his statement and that makes him positive in all aspect. I can say that it helps our operation in some way because of being positive.
Med Techs as cold chain officers in the person of JM Bergonio and Ivy Buendia is responsible for the packing and transport of blood units collected from MBD’s. Double bags and single bags are their line of checking for component preparation, specimen for serology, and so on, as long as it is about blood. In the absence of these two guys during MBD’s, Sheryl Brutas will take charge.
The newly wed Ms Lea Opiana-Arevalo, the evercharmingly smart lad Ms Jan Formaliza, the exquisite bright lady Ms Mina Sacdal and the computer wizard Ms Dulce Narvadez are our four little and big sisters in the Blood Bank. They were residues in beauty contests and computer enthusiasts and finally found their interests in a vocation like the NVBSP, and of saving lives.
They are now professional and effective pep talkers and blood donor recruiters in their own special designated assignments. “Wala ka ng hahanapin pa sa kanila” ika nga. They are the light of our team.
In our advocacy on voluntary blood donation, communication skills is the most effective way on relaying the message of the program, and that is the talent of Chester Velasco, one of our staff, to communicate and give lectures to our clients, be it professionals, elementary and college students and most specially to the people in the barangays. He can effectively deliver it all to where it should be.
Of course, we can never reached our destined place for our cause without our BB driver, Arnel Francisco, who has been with our team not only as a driver but also an all around errand, “basta may gloves sir, mayong problema”.
Our team is committed; energized by our desire to serve and extend help to those who are in need, we will continue to SAVE LIVES...we are the Pep Talkers!
-Mar Chavez