Dare to Share Your Blood Story – Enter the 2025 Competition
Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia (NamBTS) &
Global Blood Fund (GBF) My Blood Story Competition 2025
1st prize of N$10,000!
2nd prize of N$6,000
3rd prize of N$3,000
Plus special commendation prizes of N$1,500
Do you have a powerful story about blood donation that could inspire others? This is your chance to share it with the world!
The 2025 "My Blood Story" Competition invites you to create and submit a video, poem, song, play, film, or animation about your real-life experience with blood donation. Whether you’ve received blood, donated blood, or know someone whose life was saved by it, we want to hear your story.
Why Enter?
- Your story could save lives by inspiring more people to donate blood.
- Entries will be featured on our social media pages, helping spread awareness across Namibia and beyond.
- Incredible prizes to be won! Winners will be announced on World Blood Donor Day – 14 June 2025.
How to Participate
- Record your story – it can be a short video, a song, a poem, or even an animation. Be creative!
- Ensure your content is based on a real event – this competition is about authentic, true stories.
- Submit your entry between 1 March – 31 May 2025.
- Make sure your content is in English (or has English subtitles).
- Follow copyright rules – all content must be your own original work.
This is your chance to make a difference. Dare to Care. Dare to Share.
♥ Start creating today! Submit your entry between 1 March – 31 May 2025.
♥ Stay tuned for more updates and announcements!
Key Rules and Guidelines:
- Your story must be based on real events (i.e. not a work of fiction).
- Your content must relate to Namibia, or you must live, study or work in Namibia.
- As the entrant, YOU must have
- received blood - or had a loved one receive blood - that was donated voluntarily;
- donated blood voluntarily; or
- supported the giving or receiving of voluntary blood as part of your job, charitable work or volunteering at the time of the story.
- For the purposes of this competition, creative content includes short video clips, animations, poetry recitals, music videos, songs, audio stories, podcasts and interviews; short stories, speeches, poems and song lyrics and images with or without words. This list is not exhaustive and more than one medium can be used. You are encouraged to be as creative and innovative as possible.
- Content can be in English or another language. Please note that if your content is not in English, it MUST have English subtitles so that it can be shared to wider audiences, internationally.
- All content must be your own work.
- Ensure that your use of any image, photo, audio, font, logo etc. is free from copyright infringement. These assets are usually subject to the laws of copyright and intellectual property. Before using a copyrighted asset you must determine if you have permission to do so. There are a range of online sites that contain copyright free images and or audio that you can use and integrate into your content.
- By entering, you agree that NamBTS and Global Blood Fund can use your submission (story and content) as we see fit, whether or not you win a prize.
- All submissions should be your own work, unassisted or minimally assisted by AI
