Why People Should Donate Blood At Least Once A Year - A Placard I Created For Some Kind of Job

Actually I find it rather pathetic that meanwhile you have to attract people with promises if you want them to give you a blood-donation, but: This week in Tübingen I read a placard that said that if you donated blood to the German Red Cross in this region between that date and the other date you could win a ticket for some volleyball-match. The same placard also said that the German Red Cross already had contests similar to that. For example five years ago in July the German Red Cross of Stolpen promised that by donating your blood on a certain date in that very month you could win a ticket for some festival in this city. Also every year in August – according to the placard it usually is somewhere within the first ten days of August – the German Red Cross of Trippstrill gives away tickets for the theme park in this city to those who donate blood to them.

The latest sample of the magazine “GEO” says that in Yanji (China) there is a bank where you get paid – I’m not sure whether or not these are interest rates – for doing a good deed, like donating blood, a kidney or your bone-marrow; like aiding as a volunteer etc..

In November 2013 the city of Hamburg became a crime scene when a Chinese university student who just wanted to get to know Germany was beaten up and received almost lethal injuries by an unknown person. As she briefly saw his face, but did not recognize it, as he didn’t attempt to rob her – not that she carried along anything that was worth a robbery – or assault her sexually and as this action came like out of nowhere, the police presumes racist motivations. Of course they tried hard to find the assassin – after all this is also about Germany’s reputation, about an attack on the democratic ideal of racial tolerance and about some kind of recompensation towards a foreigner whom the state of Germany did not protect well enough -, but they still are entirely clueless. That’s why this August they talked about this case on the TV-show “Aktenzeichen XY…ungelöst”. They hope that someone among the audience could perhaps be familiar with the description of the attacker, but for some reason never heard of this case before.
Now, wouldn’t it have made more sense to post this under this pic that deals with tolerance? Perhaps, but as I said she was gravely injured during the attack. She required three operations from three different specialists. As you may know they also hire actors to re-enact the stories they show in an episode of “Aktenzeichen XY”. Maybe it was just my imagination and maybe it was false interpretation, but to me the things I saw and heard during the acting scenes looked like she also required some donor-blood or at least an almost equal saline solution.

When some explosive chemicals that were stored in a hall in a port in the North of China eventually exploded the night between Wednesday and Thursday, more than 60 people got injured so gravely they require donor-blood. At least that is what an illuminated advertising at the train station of Tübingen said on Thursday.

“Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker” (a German organization) says that the following story really took place: In a small, albeit very poor village in the West of Tanzania one night burglars broke into the house that at this time was inhabited by a lady and her underage children, only. Knowing that one of her sons suffered from albinism, they were going to cut his hand off and sell it illegally. They knew they could make a fortune with a hand like this as according to an urban legend which is widely believed in Tanzania body-parts of albinos are very precious medicine.
Anyway the lady of course tried to defend her son, but they just beat her unconscious before they did what they had planned on doing all along. When the child’s mother regained her focus, she immediately rushed the heavily bleeding boy to the hospital.
That was in March and it wasn’t until recently they knew that the boy would definitely survive. He required donor-blood for a very long time.