By TCN News,
Riyadh: Around 360 members of Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamaath (TNTJ), a social organization from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, organized a voluntary blood donation campaign to encourage young members of the community to donate blood to celebrate their country’s 66th Republic Day, in advance, on last Friday 23rd of Jan 2015.
TNTJ gathered at the King Fahd Medical City and 317 donors managed to donate their blood.
“We planned to celebrate the close relations and time-tested friendship between India and Saudi Arabia by donating blood. We collected around 143 litres of blood from the volunteers who came to donate their blood as a mark of respect to their motherland, which made them what they are today,” said Cholapuram Haja, TNTJ Blood donation coordinator and Secretary.
KFMC blood bank supervisor Dr. Reham Al Suwaia and the blood bank coordinator James Cidando lauded the group for its voluntary service.