Countries across the globe will celebrate ‘World Blood Donor Day’ on June 14 with events to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank volunteers for their life-saving donation. The theme for World Blood Donor Day 2011 is, “More blood more life”. This theme reinforces the urgent need for more people all over the world to become life-savers by volunteering to donate blood regularly.Each year, countries of the world organise a huge variety of events and activities to celebrate the day, from football matches to free concerts, and from mobile blood donation clinics to monumental decorations.
It is an opportunity to express gratitude to those who donate their blood in order to save lives, without expecting anything in return. WHO and partners are encouraging communities everywhere to join the World Blood Donor Day 2011 campaign and “paint the world red”, whether by symbolically colouring, covering or lighting monuments, popular landmarks and buildings in red; staging artistic, cultural or musical events with a red-coloured theme; or forming a “human blood Drop” at prominent public places.
