Blood Donation Drive 3.0 starts next weekend

Taring the vampire is the ambassador for MBO Cinemas' Blood Donation Drive 3.0.

27 Jul – Here's one vampire you will willingly give your blood to, because you know he is collecting it for a good purpose. Taring the vampire returns once again as the ambassador for MBO Cinemas' annual blood donation drive with St John Ambulance of Malaysia.

Dubbed Blood Donation Drive 3.0, this year Taring and his friends – the trained personnel from St John Ambulance of Malaysia and staff from National Blood Centre (PDN) – are targeting to save a further 15,000 lives by collecting 5,000 pints of blood to contribute to PDN.

"With this engaging charitable endeavour, MBO Cinemas hopes to further stamp our presence in the community, together with our core values of fun and entertaining, and yet a meaningful community work," said CEO of MBO Cinemas, Mr Lim Eng Hee.

The blood donation drive, with its tagline "1 Pint Saves 3 Lives", will be held at 25 locations nationwide from the first weekend of August.

Dr Noryati bt Abu Amin (PDN), Mr Lim Eng Hee (MBO Cinemas) and Dato' Yeo Kim Thong (St John Ambulance of Malaysia) at the launch of Blood Donation Drive 3.0.

On 5 and 6 August, the drive will take place in Kedah and Johor locations from 12pm to 6pm. It will then be held for the rest of Malaysia on 6 and 7 August, also from 12pm to 6pm.

Donors will be given a goodie bag each, which includes a free cinema ticket, MBO Cinemas movie merchandise, food, drinks and pharmaceutical gifts.

Started in 2014, the first drive, Blood Donation Drive 1.0 featuring Taring the Vampire Kid as ambassador, was able to collect 1,065 pints of blood. Last year, Blood Donation Drive 2.0, featuring Zen Jun Qian as Gigi the Vampiress, collected 4,052 pints.

Donations made to both events have already saved more than 15,000 lives.