The Red Spring Festival was co-held by the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Ha Noi City’s Steering Committee of motivating blood donation along with the Ha Noi Youth Association of motivating blood donation. This was the biggest event of donating blood in this year in order to provide a large amount of blood to treat and give first aid to the patients right after the Tet holidays. Simultaneously, it was to continue appealing to the interest and support of the press in the work of propagating to raise the community awareness about voluntary blood donation.

The PPA’s students donated blood at the festival

With the message “Red background, green edge, sparkling red drop of the soldiers”, the PPA’s students contributed to the Red Spring Festival about 80 units of blood and cheerfully appealed the Youth Union members to donate their blood. Bringing warm drops of blood to Red Spring Festival, the PPA’s students hoped to ease the worries and hardship of the patients who could not pay for treatment.

The flash mob performance of the PPA’s students 

made impression at the Red Spring Festival

Along with the groups of volunteers coming from the colleges and other volunteer units in Ha Noi, the PPA’s volunteers built the camp to display and sell some products, such as police bears, key hooks, etc. with a view to raising the charity fund to help the families having difficult conditions. The effervescent performances of flash mob, art exchange also happened cheerfully at the festival, which appealed the attention of most of the volunteers. The activities at the festival contributed to build the image of young police officers who were not only enthusiastic and active but also friendly and humane.

Written by Tran Ngoc Tiem