Every year
Donează sânge
“Give blood”: blood drives with the parishioners of the hospital church. Father Ion organises the trip to the Blood Transfusion Centre and gives blood alongside them.
The story of the campaign
Father Ion gives blood twice a year, together with dozens of parishioners. The donors travel free of charge to the Blood Transfusion Centre in Slatina and, after giving blood, visit monasteries in the county: Clocociov, Strehareț, Brâncoveni.
The aim, as the Diocese of Slatina and Romanați put it in 2018: a community of volunteer Christians who take part regularly in the blood drives the Church organises. Father Ion says those who give blood are true heroes, and he is among the donors every time.
The editions
4 editions
2021
In August, dozens of the parish’s parishioners gave blood at the County Blood Transfusion Centre in Slatina; many have given blood for years, others were giving for the first time.
2020
In August, a new blood drive in Caracal, because the transfusion centres are short of donors.
2019
In June the hospital’s medical staff gave blood. On 8 October the “Give a chance at life” campaign brought the mobile donation unit to the courtyard of Caracal Municipal Hospital: parishioners gave blood, as did people from the town’s institutions — the hospital, the Ioniță Asan High School, Military Unit 01871 Deveselu — and from the villages around. In October, through Father Ion’s campaign, a Caracal factory gave six mobile blood-collection beds to the Olt Blood Transfusion Centre.
Result200 donors on 8 October; six mobile blood-collection beds for the Olt Blood Transfusion Centre.
2018
In February about 40 parishioners gave blood in Slatina, and with the meal vouchers they received they bought food for a family with six children. On 14 June Father Ion gave blood alongside 50 believers, with a coach provided by the church. On 5 November, 30 more donors, among them medical staff and nuns; Gazeta Oltului then named him its “Man of the Day” for the “Give blood” campaign.
Photographs
2 photographs
In the press
15 articles and reports
- Părintele Ion Iagăru a dat startul unei noi campanii de donare de sânge (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Oltului
in Romanian - Centrul de Transfuzii Sanguine a primit donația de paturi mobile (opens in a new tab)
Eveniment de Olt
in Romanian
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- Omul zilei (untitled post in the "Omul zilei" section) (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Oltului
in Romanian - Un preot și-a scos enoriașii să dăruiască o picătură de speranță. Printre ei și un primar (opens in a new tab)
Realitatea Oltului
in Romanian - Au donat sange si au ajutat sase frati din Osica de Sus (opens in a new tab)
Eveniment de Olt
in Romanian
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