In despite of the cold and rainy weather, more than 80 students of the PPA were present at the University of Commerce early to attend the Red Sunday. Not only did the students participate in blood donation activities but they also bring to the Red Sunday many special art performance. Especially, this year, the PPA continued to be entrusted by the organizing board to open the festival by the population dance which contributed to stir the atmosphere at the Red Sunday.

The PPA students donated their blood at the Red Sunday

Participating in the Red Sunday this year, many youth of the PPA are new students who have never donated their blood. Sharing their emotions when the first time donating their blood at a large-scale program as the Red Sunday, a lot of new students said that at the beginning, they felt a little trembling and palpitations, but after they felt so happy when the doctors finished the blood-taking. They also really felt proud because their small amount of blood can contribute to support many patients in need of blood.

For many PPA students, Red Sunday is not only a blood donation program 

but also a significant extracurricular festival

The sixth Red Sunday was held by Tien Phong (Pioneer) Newspaper and the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, the Youth Union of Hanoi Capital at the University of Commerce in Hanoi. Launched five years ago, the Red Sunday has attracted the participation of thousands of youths and students of universities, colleges and people in Hanoi as well as in a number of localities; collecting over 4,000 units of blood. With the growing of scale, in the sixth year (in 2014), in the first day in Hai Phong and Nam Dinh, the Red Sunday was collected about 1,499 units of blood. In three day, the program attracted 2,822 blood donors. 

Translated by Xuan Thanh