Every year on June 14, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day. This event makes it possible to thank voluntary blood donors, volunteers, for the life-saving gesture they make by donating their blood, and to raise public awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure the quality, safety and availability of blood and blood products for patients who need them. This year 2022, the chosen theme is: “Giving blood, an act of solidarity”.
As part of its logic of supporting the Congolese population in its social development, particularly in the areas of health, education and the economy through the empowerment and inclusion of vulnerable groups of women and young people, the Vodacom Foundation sensitized the agents and executives of Vodacom Congo to this exercise in Kinshasa. Thus, three reception sites for volunteers to donate their blood for free have been set up in Mobile in the HR room at the level of the General Management, in Square in the Syndicate room in the former Renault Zaire facilities and in House sur de la Justice, not far from the Gombe town hall.
This operation, according to the acting manager of the Vodacom Foundation, Mrs. Roliane Yulu, took place in all the provinces where the National Blood Transfusion Center has its five branches. And in the capital, at least 170 agents and executives, including the DG and the DGA, had a few liters of blood drawn from their bodies.
“In the field of health, we lose a lot of life just because of the lack of a liter of blood. So if we who have blood that is renewed, why not give it to those who lack it, who urgently need it? », declared Ms. Roliane Yulu adding: “We have this cause and we have taken it to Vodacom employees. They have always been magnificent, our employees, they have always accompanied the Foundation since it has existed. They were opened and that is why you saw all these movements in order to give blood voluntarily. We give it because we understand that it is important to save lives, that we manage to reduce cases of mortality in Congo due to anemia”.
Motivating his blood donation gesture, Kelly Bongubi Mpiana, Vodacom agent explains: “It’s caring for each other because we all have a loved one in our hearts. And we would like that if it is not us, that someone else does this act, not necessarily for the person you know but for a person who will need it”.
It should be remembered in its April 2022 – April 2023 budget exercise, the Vodacom Foundation has planned in its campaign “12 heartfelt impulses to transform lives”, also the health component. It plans to train 50 female first aiders in each province, capable of administering first aid to accident victims and other victims of natural disasters. But other projects in this health sector will be unveiled.
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