Generous Hong Kong blood and bone marrow donor passes on his habits to his children
Compassion Ambassador nominee has given blood 256 times and donated bone marrow twice
When police officer Chan Kwong-hing's daughter turned 16, he took her to a blood donation centre - so she could make her first donation.
"Oh, she did get plenty of other birthday presents as well," he explains, but he was keen to pass on the community spirit to the next generation.
Mr Chan has been donating blood for 29 years - doing it a staggering 256 times.
"When my daughter, Maggie Chan [Yuen-ching], was very young, I used to bring her with me" to the Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in Yau Ma Tei.
"So she was very comfortable with it and not afraid ... Now she's a habitual blood donor and donates blood once every four months," the police officer says.
At the centre, people lie on reclining chairs as they give blood. The donors tend to be younger and therefore quite fit, says Dr Lee Cheuk-kwong, a consultant for transfusion and transplant medicine at the service. So he asks many of them whether they are also willing to be bone marrow donors.
Chan, 46, who oversees police transport at the West Kowloon regional headquarters, has donated bone marrow twice.