Makole Citizens Donates 50 Bottles Of Safe Blood To Curtail Shortage -

By Peter
Mkwavila

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than 100 citizens of Makole Ward in Dodoma Capital City have voluntary donated at
least 50 bottles of safe blood, thanks to the Raise Yourself To Help Mankind.

The NGO,
‘Raise Yourself To Help Mankind’ stood at the forefront to sensitize the citizens
in the popular Ward located at the heart of the Dodoma Capital City to donate
the said bottles of blood with an eye to curtail a shortage of a life-serving
health services in the Ward, as well as the Dodoma Region as a whole.

An
acronym for ‘Raise Yourself To Help Mankind’is at the heart of everything we
do. It reflects our responsibility to play a pivotal role in achieving the
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Speaking
during the blood donating exercise, the Representative of the Raise Yourself To
Help Mankind, Dr Monica Shayo expressed that they have decided to embark on a
helpful exercise of sensitizing the citizens in the Ward to see the important
of donating blood in order to serve the lives of a number of patients who are
dying to absence of the key life-saving service.

“Blood
is life, and human bloods have no any other alternative sources,and thus, when a
patient is in need of blood the only way to get blood is to be donated by the
other human being,” he detailed.

And Dr
Shayo added that the NGO, ‘Raise Yourself To Help Mankind’ will continue
standing firm to support the Government in the general goals to roll out key
humanitarian services to the diverse communities, especially the marginalized
ones.

He informed that the reputable NGO has also been engaging into the general task of
providing needed education towards the communities on proper use of medicines.