TPO - On the morning of March 24, Tien Phong Newspaper, Can Tho Youth Union Standing Committee coordinated with the Southwest Mobile Police Regiment to organize the 3th Red Sunday festival in 16, at Battalion 2024 (City. Can Tho). In the morning, the program received nearly 1 units of blood.
Opening ceremony atmosphere. |
Attending the Red Sunday festival was Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee. Can Tho – Nguyen Doc Hien; Deputy Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union, Chairman of Vietnam Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City. Can Tho – Tran Viet Tuan; Lieutenant Colonel Duong Van Vu - Deputy Regiment Commander of the Southwest Mobile Police Regiment; representatives of the Red Cross, along with hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Mobile Police Regiment, youth union members and people of the city. Can Tho.
A large number of young people and soldiers showed up early to register to donate blood. |
Mr. Tran Viet Tuan - Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union, Chairman of Vietnam Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City. Can Tho said that the Red Sunday program is one of the community activities that has a great impact on society. The program is held annually to call for the cooperation of healthy people to support blood sources for treatment and saving lives at hospitals.
The program carries the message of promoting solidarity, love for each other, and widely propagates the voluntary blood donation movement among all social classes, in which youth union members and students are the core force.
Delegates attended the opening ceremony. |
Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union, Chairman of the Vietnam Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City. Can Tho - Mr. Tran Viet Tuan launched a voluntary blood donation movement at the festival. |
“For the health of the community and for the health of each person, I call on all groups and individuals to actively respond and register to donate blood to save lives. We hope that the youth union members and students participating in today's program will continue to uphold the traditions of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union organization, promote the spirit of impulsivity, and volunteer for the community to participate in blood donation and campaigning. Encourage the entire society to participate in blood donation. This is both our sentiment and our sacred responsibility to the whole society," Mr. Tran Viet Tuan called.
Representatives of Can Tho Youth Union and Tien Phong Newspaper presented letters of thanks to accompanying units. |
Speaking at the program, Journalist Nguyen Ngoc Tien - Head of the Current Affairs - Politics Department, in charge of Tien Phong Newspaper Representative Office in the Mekong Delta said, with the message "Donate a drop of blood - Life of you and me", the Red Sunday program has become an event with profound humanitarian significance on a national scale, aiming to overcome the blood scarcity situation across the country.
Leaders of Can Tho City People's Committee and representatives of Tien Phong Newspaper awarded medals for accompanying the organization of Red Sunday for many years in Can Tho City to the units. |
Delegates pose for a photo. |
Red Sunday was initiated by Tien Phong newspaper in 2009, in coordination with the National Traffic Safety Committee, the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, the Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation, and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. Minh and provinces and cities nationwide implement.
The program received the attention of Party and state leaders from central to local levels. From the first blood donation point in Hanoi in 2009 with less than 100 blood units collected, Red Sunday has now spread to 36 provinces and cities nationwide, with 75 blood donation points, the amount of blood donated. received over 50.500 units. In the Mekong Delta region, outside the city. Can Tho, Red Sunday also spread to other provinces such as Kien Giang, An Giang, Dong Thap, Tra Vinh, Ca Mau, Soc Trang...
“On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to sincerely thank the city leaders. Can Tho, Can Tho City Youth Union, Southwest Mobile Police Regiment, City Red Cross Society and functional agencies have coordinated, supported and created conditions to implement this program. In particular, thank you to the volunteers who came here to donate their meaningful and humane drops of blood for the community," Journalist Nguyen Ngoc Tien shared. |
Leaders of the City People's Committee. Can Tho, Southwest Mobile Police Regiment, Tien Phong Newspaper visited soldiers participating in blood donation. |
Lieutenant Colonel Vu Xuan Hoa - Deputy Regiment Commander of the Southwest Mobile Police Regiment participated in donating blood. |
Private Phung Pham Thanh Danh, Battalion 1, Mobile Police Regiment donated blood at the festival. |
Pink ghosts participate in blood donation. |
Beauty queen Huynh Thuy Vi donated blood at the program. |
Representatives of CP Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company and Tien Phong Newspaper presented gifts to blood donors. Vietnam Joint Stock Company has accompanied the Red Sunday program in recent years. |
According to the Organizing Committee, in the morning, the program received nearly 700 units of blood. |