​Blood donation: From childhood I "build" the love for life

Our project took place in a kindergarden class of a primary school in Patras and the cause was an accident in one of the students in school. The program lasted 2 months, February and March. The aims of the project were: 1)to... [ view full abstract ]

Our project took place in a kindergarden class of a primary school in Patras and the cause was an accident in one of the students in school. The program lasted 2 months, February and March.

The aims of the project were: 1)to learn the students the human body, 2) to realize the importance of voluntary blood donation, 3) to overcome their fears and prejudice and 4) to become themselves “transmitters”  of the donation and to become blood donors in the future.

The students learned the human body and its functions.  Then they learned about accidents and they categorized them.  They learned also about blood, about the blood types and they were informed about the blood donation groups that they exist in their town. There was a visit from a local blood donation organization and the children read fairytales according to the subject.

They were informed about the special conditions of the blood donation and how they could inform their families about it. They conducted a list about what a good blood donator consists of and they wrote a song and slogans about it. They took part in a role play about blood donation and they spoke about emotions.  As a conclusion, we made a poster about the subject with an acrostic in it.

In the end of the program there was a survey in order to check whether the students liked the program and what they learned from it.