As part of its 16th All African Service Project(AASP) the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has rendered different humanitarian services in all the church’s stakes and Districts in Rivers State, on Saturday.
The humanitarian services are an annual event usually carried out to assist the host communities at different locations of the church in August every year in Africa.
The Church also simultaneously carried different selfless services in 23 Stakes that includes Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Bayelsa States.
In Port Harcourt Nigeria South Stake the church in partnership with Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) and Red Society of Nigeria in the State carried blood donation exercise.
The Tide gathered in Port Harcourt West and Central Stakes the church cleared grasses at Community Secondary School, Rumuolumeni, and the premises of Rivers State Television and Rivers State Broadcasting Corporation in Elelenwo. In Port Harcourt Nigeria Stake there was general clean-up at Chief Ogbuga road.
While in East and Choba Stakes there was also general sanitation of Airforce Market, Eleme junction by Igbo Etche junction and Omuahunwo, Aluu road opposite OPM free specialist hospital, in Omuahunwo Community respectively.
In Okrika District, the church took its sanitation exercise to Abam road and painted Abam Community borehole.
In their separate reactions, the President of Port Harcourt Nigeria South Stake, Eric Aganbi, said the blood donation exercise was designed to promote good neighbourliness and save human lives.
According to him, the exercise was borne out of the fact that families of many sick people that need blood cannot afford it.
” I will described the event as very successful because many people came out and donated blood. This exercise was basically for the less privileged people and to save human lives” Aganbi said.
Reacting medical consultant and Head of Haematology department in RSUTH, Dr Hannah Omunakwe, said donation of blood is very important to the society because there are people who cannot afford blood when it is needed.
” It is a beautiful thing that people are donating blood today, World Health Organization (WHO) has said every blood transfusion should be given free.
I observed that women and children demand blood transfusion more when they are sick” she said.
In his reaction the communication director in Port Harcourt Nigeria South Stake, Chief Oris Onyiri expressed joy over the large turn out of blood donors.
” Honestly I am really impressed of the huge number of people that donated. This exercise is service to humanity, besides good health is the most important thing in human life” Chief Onyiri said.
Chief Onyiri who was former Chaiman of the State Civil Service Commisdion thank all those who came and donate blood to save lives, saying that service to humanity is the best thing every human being should do.
