The ‘Red Journey Campaign’ to donate blood was organized by the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion and the Hanoi Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation to mark the 66th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day. This is a meaningful activity that began in southern most Ca Mau province on July 7 and has gone through 15 cities and provinces in total for 22 days, attracted participation of thousands of young people. During the campaign, organizers collected thousands of units of blood from 300,000 volunteers, for the blood bank at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion for treatment of patients.

The PPA young officers and students resigned to donate their blood

Sending out a message “each heart, each heroic flame”, the campaign has been enthusiastically responded by young people from the PPA with over ten ones, among whom there are those who have regularly donated blood, like Lieutenant Bui Hoang Ly Ly, youth union police official of the PPA, who has given her blood for the donated fifteen times.

Bui Hoang Ly Ly with  fifteen times of giving her blood, always to be the vanguard 

of the youth police union officials in blood donation mobilizing activities at the PPA

Besides, the event also included other activities to call for more blood donation, an artistic exchange of “ each heart- each heroic flame”, a closing ceremony for the “Trans-Vietnam Red journey” and a program “Vietnamese voices” to select good messages for new millennium development goals after 2015.

Translated by GL