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The start of the marathon took place on April 10 in Moscow on Poklonnaya Hill. And until April 28, a series of similar donor actions will be held in five other cities of Russia.
The main goal of the donor marathon "70 Years of Victory" is to promote the topic of business social responsibility and to unite the largest companies to implement good deeds and a noble mission. Therefore, an important component of the marathon is the joining of LG partners ’Eldorado and UTair airlines to donor initiatives.
The “Donor Marathon“ 70th Anniversary of Victory ”logically continues a number of such important projects as the“ Train of Innovation and Good Deeds ”2012, the“ Technology of Good ”marathon of 2013, the“ Air Good Marathon ”of 2014, during which the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and The FMBA of Russia at the initiative of LG organized donor actions.
“The formation of a culture of corporate donation is, on the one hand, a great contribution to the development of the institution of mass donation, and on the other, an example of effective cooperation between the state and business to achieve social goals.The complicity of the corporate community is a guarantee that the institution of blood donation will develop steadily. The donor marathon is an example of such cooperation for authorities and for the business world, "said Vladimir Uyba, head of the FMBA of Russia.
On April 10, the Eldorado bus went from Moscow to Smolensk, where the 70th anniversary Donor Day, initiated by LG, was held. Today and tomorrow he will visit St. Petersburg. And from the northern capital of the marathon, the UTair plane will deliver the participants to Voronezh (April 19–21) and then to Rostov-on-Don (April 22–24). The organizers will travel to the final city of Volgograd by train (April 27–28). Donor events will be held in all cities of the project, and lectures and master classes by Tatyana Shakhnes, LG Public Relations Director in Russia, a member of the Donor Coordination Council at the RF OP, and representatives of partner companies: Oksana Kritikova, will be organized for students of regional universities , head of Eldorado’s internal communications and social projects division and head of UTair’s corporate communications department, Olympic silver medalist, 4-time biathlon world champion Nikolai Kruglov, on the importance of corporate volunteering.
By tradition, the famous Russian athletes will become the ambassadors of donation and a healthy lifestyle. For five years, prominent Russian athletes and famous people joined the donor movement, including: Konstantin Tszyu, Alexey Nemov, Tatyana Navka, Alexander Zubkov, Alexey Voevoda,Anton Shipulin, Svetlana Khorkina, Irina Chashchina, Svetlana Masterkova, Natalia Ragozina, Ruslan Nigmatullin, Dmitry Sautin, Alexei Yagudin, Tatyana Totmyanina, Vyacheslav Malafeev and many others.
“We are very pleased that LG donor initiatives have been actively supported by our business partners throughout the 6 years of the project, the geography of events is expanding, the annual organization of donor marathons has become a good tradition. We are proud that, together with Eldorado and UTair “We can contribute to the implementation of large-scale government donor initiatives for the benefit of the Russian society,” says Mr. Dahyun Song, President of LG Electronics in Russia.Since joining the Development Program for the Mass Voluntary Blood Donation of Blood and Its Components in Russia since 2009, when LG Electronics became the first of the business community partners of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and FMBA of Russia, 69 Donor Days have already been held (in offices, at the factory, at the Service Representative, together with partners), LG LG employees are donors.
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Material prepared by Julia Dekanova
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