Trimbak Shinde, 53, a farmer from Waghapur village in Sangamner, realised the importance of blood donation at a young age. On Wednesday, he donated blood for the 105th time at a blood donation camp.

Shinde, who has been donating at the Shiv Jayanti Ustav Yuvak Samiti’s camp since it was started, shared with mid-day, “When I was in the Std VII, my grandfather urgently needed blood and Sangamner had no blood bank. I rode my bicycle to Sahyadri College, where seven students donated nine bottles of blood. Social workers involved accompanied me and fed snacks to the blood donors. I never knew them and they never knew. Yet they helped and saved my grandfather’s life.”