Games for children, magic show, gourmet snack, etc. This Wednesday, June 14, World Blood Donor Day, the Amicale Thionvilloise is planning a festive collection at the Veymerange complex. President Françoise Blottière announces the color.
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Today at 12:30
“We gained experience. It will be even more successful. “Françoise Blottière aims, this Wednesday, June 14, a faultless. In 2018, the Association of volunteer blood donors of Thionville and surroundings had already organized an event collection. Five years later, the association does it again on World Blood Donor Day.
The president announces the color, festive red, which will color the Veymerange complex all day (9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.): “We are planning games for children, turn everything upside down or even duck fishing. This will allow parents to be able to donate blood with peace of mind. A magician will also be on deck and we made an effort with a gourmet snack, lists Françoise. This system is above all a way of paying tribute to the most loyal donors. »
A way, too, to broaden the spectrum of donors. Because in Thionville and its surroundings, the account is not there.
2,000 donors in 2023: “It’s not enough”
In 2022, collections carried out by the Thionville entity brought together 2,000 donors. An honorable figure but which still seems insufficient with regard to the population pool: “In France, we arrive at 4% of donors on average. In Thionville, we barely exceed 3%. The reasons for this quite relative mobilization do not come from the usual structural difficulties of this territory.
Overworked cross-border commuters who are therefore reluctant to reach out to their neighbour? “That’s not true. During our collections in Hettange-Grande, many of them come in the evening on their way home from work. A carefree youth and for the time being disinterested in this act of solidarity? “Here too, it is false, objects the leader. The momentum is very good at the moment with a dozen first-time donors in their twenties identified at each of our campaigns. Where is the blockage, then? “Has an urban tendency,” she says. An excess of individualism, alas, classic. » A worrying observation as the shift in the month of June is proving to be of importance.
“It’s not just blood”
This month of donation precedes the summer period and therefore departures on vacation. Under the impetus of the EFS (French Blood Establishment), the message is as follows: build up stocks to deal with this sunny truce: “Currently, with regard to blood group O, the state of the reserves is 10 days. But we would need 12 days of stock…”
As a good president, Françoise insists on the saving role of the blood collected. Cancer treatment, leukemia, emergency surgery… She knows the speech is well known. Knows its limits. So she concludes from a more personal point of view: “With each donation, it’s a bit like giving of myself. It’s not just blood, but also hope and energy. »
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