As all participants needed to make a project, I wanted mine to be something specific and unique. My project was organizing World Hemophilia Day (WHD) in 2015 with my colleagues from the Serbian Hemophilia Community. We had a great team working on the project, and I am proud that I was part of it. We received a grant from one foundation, and we made a deal that we needed to give our maximum effort to justify expectations and make WHD 2015 much more different than the others.

The next part was connected with the shopping center “Usce” in Belgrade. It is the biggest shopping mall in Serbia, and we chose it because of its traffic and visibility. There, we held a gathering with a big 3D imitation of a drop of blood. The point of the 3D imitation was to attract the attention of people who were in that area and passing by near our gathering. So, they came by and signed a drop of blood as a symbol of their support.

The second one was “Ada Bridge.” We succeeded in lighting it up completely in red as a symbol of bleeding. The whole bridge, which is the most beautiful and one of the biggest in Serbia, was flashing in red on the night of WHD. It was a great feeling to see a structure like that flashing in the color of WHD.

My opinion is that programs and projects like SURO have proven to be very helpful, and all stakeholders need to make an effort to make many more projects like this one.