OREANDA-NEWS. February 3, 2009. In January 2009 Bank Finance and Credit carried out the first part of the Blood-Donor Day campaign dedicated to the forthcoming International Day of Children with Cancer. Blood donated by score of employees of the head office and Kiev outlets of the Bank was submitted to the children`s Кровь, сданная десятками сотрудников головного офиса и киевских отделений Банка, была передана в детское oncohematological department of the Kiev region hospital No.1.

Blood-donation problem is particularly acute now in all Ukrainian cities, especially in holiday season when blood stations are almost empty. That`s why employees of donation centers are happy at getting every gram of donated blood.

According to Natalia Napadovska, PR Director, Bank Finance and Credit, - `All the participants of the action were brimming with high spirits, irradiated optimism and aspiration for providing help to children with cancer and have not changed their attitude after the campaign was finished. Many of them left the Center being confident that they would return here in some time to donate more blood`.

Currently the standard portion of one blood donation by a first-time adult-donor makes up 390 gram. Whereas bank "record-holders" donated 450 and even 480 gram.

One of the campaign participants Vadim Kvartsiany said - `I hope that employees of the Bank will lead the way to other people and will show them that charity is a prerogative of not only large corporations and millionaires. A true charity is when you donate part of yourself`.