Arjun Prasad Mainali was born on June 20, 1968 in Sipali, Kabhrepalanchok, Nepal. In Nepal Commerce Campus, he read short story ‘The Blood Donor’. After reading story, he was encouraged and motivated to donate blood himself. The first time he donated blood was on August 20, 1987 at Kathmandu, Nepal. Since then, he has given blood 156 times himself- almost 88,000 ml., 78 litters, 20 gallons, spread over 14 states of United States, 10 countries and five continents and saved 468 lives globally on August 20, 2016. Mainali is very committed to this noble cause of donating blood. For example in 2014 alone, he had donated blood 19 times; 6 times in different countries including United States, Canada, England, Bermuda, Macao and Ireland and has donated platelets 13 times in New York.
While he was in Nepal, he was founder member for Blood Donors Association of Nepal in 1990. When he migrated in United States in 2000, since then he is donating blood and encouraging people to donate blood to help the shortage of blood in USA. He established Blood Donors of America on June 17, 2009 to educate and encourage people to donate blood in USA and International Nepalese Nepalese Blood Donors in February 2014.
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