World Blood Donor Day
“What can you do?”
Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day.
The event serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood. This year’s campaign will focus on blood donation in emergencies. In any crisis or emergency situation, the natural human response is “What can I do? How can I help?” therefore, the slogan for the 2017 campaign is: “What can you do?” with the secondary message “Give blood. Give now. Give often”.
The campaign underlines the role every single person can play in helping others in emergency situations, by giving the valuable gift of blood.
“Blood donation is important as the lives and health of millions of people are affected by emergencies every year. In the last decade, disasters have caused more than 1 million deaths, with more than 250 million people being affected by emergencies every year.”
Get involved this June by:
- Donating blood
- Organising a fundraiser
- Volunteering with the foundation
- Raising awareness on social media
For more information, visit: http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-blood-donor-day/2017/event/en/