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STORY: LEBANON / BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN
TRT: 2:27
SOURCE: UNIFIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /SPANISH /NATS
DATELINE: 13-14 AUGUST 2020, NAQOURA, LEBANON
1. Various shots, Red Cross staff installing blood donation center in UNIFIL clinic
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Celine Atimeh, Head Nurse, UNIFIL HQ Hospital:
“We are doing a blood donation campaign in coordination with the Lebanese Red Cross. The idea and the initiative came from UNIFIL senior management, the second day after the blast in Beirut that occurred and this is because UNIFIL wanted to participate in support of the Lebanese people.”
3. Various shots, Red Cross staff registering donors
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Celine Atimeh, Head Nurse, UNIFIL HQ Hospital:
“We received a lot of requests for blood donation from hospitals in Beirut. So, we have engaged with the Lebanese Red Cross who expressed their willingness to come to Naqoura and to do this blood donation campaign.”
5. Med shot, peacekeeper donating blood
6. Close up, blood bag
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eugene Friel, Senior Political Affairs Officer, UNIFIL”
“I'm here to give blood today to help the victims of the tragic events in Beirut on the 4th of August. It's important that we do all we can in this difficult time for all those involved and the simple act of giving a small amount of blood can go a long way to saving someone's life.”
8. Various shots, UNIFIL personnel donating blood
9. SONDBITE (Spanish) Captain Jennifer Barrientos, Guatemalan Peacekeeper, UNIFIL:
“As a UNIFIL peacekeeper, it is very important to be able to help the people of Lebanon and its citizens and one way of giving our grain of sand is by giving our blood, which is what the Lebanese urgently need right now.”
10. Various shots, UNIFIL personnel donating blood
Nearly one hundred UN peacekeepers in Lebanon – military as well as civilians – donated blood for the victims of the horrific 4 August explosions that devastated a part of Beirut, left hundreds dead and thousands injured.
In coordination with the Lebanese Red Cross, 96 personnel of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) donated blood at the Mission’s hospital in Naqoura, south Lebanon.
The blood donation was a part of the UNIFIL efforts to assist Lebanese in the aftermath of the explosions, which also left a UNIFIL ship docked in the Beirut Port damaged and 23 of its naval peacekeepers injured.
Last week, UNIFIL personnel joined a collective effort of the UN Staff Unions in Lebanon, as part of the “#UN4Beirut” initiative, to clean the streets of the Beirut district devastated by the explosions.
One of the donors, Eugene Friel, a senior Political Affairs Officer, said: “It is important that we do all we can in this difficult time for all those affected, and a simple act of giving and a small amount of blood can go along to saving someone's life.”
Another donor, Captain Jennifer Barrientos, a UNIFIL peacekeeper from Guatemala, feels it’s important to support one another, especially during these critical times in Lebanon.
“As a UNIFIL peacekeeper, it is very important to be able to help the people of Lebanon and its citizens,” she said “and one way of giving our grain of sand is by giving our blood, which is what the Lebanese urgently need right now.”
