When times are hard we tend to rack our brains and come up with initiatives that change things. We can’t donate blood by Internet yet but we certainly can become 2.0 Donors!

How many of us would donate blood more often but simply don’t remember?  The statistics say many of us. In 2009, 38,573 donations more than the previous year were obtained in Spain, an increase of 2.16%… just over three points lower than the 2008 figure, which was 5.57%. The level of national self-sufficiency, that is to say, the index of donations per thousand inhabitants, has been calculated at 39.03, when it should be between 43 and 45 donations. On the whole, there are around 2,162,000 active donor.*

In the age of virtual friendships, what could be more fitting than becoming blood friends. Join up according to our blood group, find out about reserves, how many of us there are, where we are, support each other and, above all, remember that the smaller the state support, the greater our responsibility. If social networks give power to the people, let’s show it! 

The Facebook application Donors 2.0 is another of the initiatives being launched for June 14th, the International Blood Donor Day, for which Barcelona will gain the status of capital for a year in recognition of its free, voluntary, altruistic model, organized around a single blood bank. Barcelona Has Blood is its motto, and the crossed plaster is the symbol that aims to become international, as the blood donation movement has no distinctive one. Blood friends can also vote for the plaster, gaining its official recognition with their vote. 

Solidarity is a trend and that’s why voting for the plaster wins a prize. 15 pairs of Munich trainers will go to the winners of a draw that includes anyone who has voted by July 4th. Thus making them fashionable blood friends.

Guess what else unites you to your friends, cast a blood vote and show your support. You’re all welcome, except vampires! Make it clear that Tienes Sangre or Tens Sang. 

*Data provided by the Spanish Federation of Blood Donors

http://www.tenemossangre.org/