TPO - This morning, February 28, Tien Phong Newspaper coordinated with the Red Cross Society, the Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation in Quang Nam Province and Hoi An City to organize the Red Sunday Festival in Tan An Ward.
The program attracted hundreds of local people to share their blood.
From early morning, many people braved the rain to come to the Red Sunday Festival. With the message " Donate blood to save lives - Your life and mine " , the Red Sunday journey to 2024 has entered its 16th year in the journey of giving life. |
At the blood donation registration area. |
And wait to be called to donate blood. |
Mr. Le Tan Minh - Chairman of the Quang Nam Provincial Red Cross Society, Deputy Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation, said that this morning more than 500 people came to donate blood. |
Speaking at the Red Sunday Festival, journalist Tran Tuan, Head of Tien Phong Newspaper's representative office in the Central region, said that Red Sunday was initiated and organized by Tien Phong Newspaper, in coordination with the National Traffic Safety Committee, the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, localities, universities, agencies and units nationwide, with the noble purpose of bringing warm blood to the poor and anemic patients before and after Tet. |
"The Red Cross and the Red Japanese Red Cross share the same word "Red". It is the color of volunteer enthusiasm and dedication, and also the color of drops of blood that sustain human life - almost the only thing that science has not been able to artificially create. That red color, those sacred drops of blood, today here are ready to volunteer to donate to save people, from hundreds of young people who are members of the Youth Union, students, cadres, civil servants, young people of the armed forces, ... in Hoi An city", journalist Tran Tuan shared. In the photo: Journalist Tran Tuan and Mr. Le Tan Minh encourage volunteers to donate blood. |
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien (Cam Pho ward) shared that her donation will help save a life, so even though she has donated blood more than 20 times, she still continues to participate. "Red Sunday is a very meaningful program, providing more blood for patients and conveying the message that everyone should give while they still can," she said. |
For many Hoi An residents, this is the first time they have donated blood on Red Sunday. |
Ms. Le Thi Bich Hanh - Vice President of Tan An Ward Fatherland Front has donated blood more than 10 times and previously donated blood at Red Sunday. |
As the afternoon wore on, more and more people came to donate blood. The festival is expected to receive about 500 units of blood. |
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