Joining hands for social good, SM Foundation, Inc. (SMFI), Philippine Red Cross, and the Philippine Blood Center recently collaborated for several bloodletting activities in SM malls nationwide.
The second blood donation campaign led by SMFI logged over 3,000 successful donors — with volunteers coming from more than 70 malls and SM Corporate Offices.
Each bag of donated blood can help save a life or the lives of three individuals as transfusable components, namely white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets, can be derived from donated blood.
The donated blood bags are stored at its blood bank at the DOH Philippine Blood Center and can be accessed by indigent patients should the need arise.
Aside from bloodletting initiatives, SMFI’s Health and Wellness Program upgrades public health centers of grassroots communities, complemented by its medical caravans across the country.
To date, it has renovated more than 160 health and wellness centers and served more than one million patients in its medical missions.
