DONOR-marathon will be organized at the 4th forum «Movement of Life»

15.11.17

November 22 in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation will be the IV forum of the organizers of the donor movement «Movement of Life». One of the main activities of the forum will be the educational platform DONOR-marathon.

The organizers of the forum are the National Foundation for Health Development and the Moscow Blood Donor Resource Center with the support of the Moscow City Public Relations Committee, the Blood Donor Coordination Center of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Commission for the Protection of Public Health and Public Health Development of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Over the years, the forum has become one of the leading educational and communication sites in the field of youth donorship. Since 2014, representatives of student youth, active blood donors, non-profit organizations, associations and initiative groups, blood services, volunteers and organizers of the donor movement from Moscow and other regions of Russia are gathering at the forum.

At the beginning of the business program of the forum at the presentation session «Together we save lives! Forum of the organizers of the donor movement - four years». Participants of the forum will tell about their experience of participation and expectations, as well as presentations of participants who participated in all previous forums at the presentation session.

«One of the main events of the forum will be the educational platform DONOR-marathon. In the course of the event, which participants will work in the workshops of success, on the creative platforms, to increase their competence, «to pump out» their knowledge and skills»- says Elena Stefanyuk, director of the National Fund for Health Development, deputy head of the Coordination Center for Blood Donation Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. - The DONOR-marathon teams also have to have serious analytical work at the integrated session «Supporting the donor movement: problem areas for the work of the organizers of the donor movement and algorithms for overcoming them». The result of the forum's business program will be the strategic session «Donor Movement: Achievements, Challenges, a Vector of Development».

The event is held within the framework of the program «Development of a regular responsible blood donation and its components as an element of volunteer activity of Moscow residents», executed by the National Fund for Health Development following the results of the competition held by the Public Relations Committee for socially-oriented non-profit organizations.

Source: Blood Service

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