The Pi Sigma Fraternity Alumni Association Inc. in coordination with the Philippine Red Cross conducted today a nationwide bloodletting program dubbed “Kapatiran at Katipunan: Sanduguan Para sa Bayan” which was simultaneously held at the Regional Government Center’s Red Cross Building in SACOP, Maimpis in this city and in the cities of Quezon, Tarlac, Baguio, Koronadal, and Davao.

The PSFAAI’s members in Pampanga, led by chapter president Alvin Chincuanco, held the blood donation drive of both fraternity members and non-members in the City of San Fernando.

“As Kapampangan members of Pi Sigma, we commemorate Andres Bonifacio’s legacy of supreme love of country (and) this bloodletting project is our own humble way of showing love to our country and to actually help augment the dwindling blood supply in our health care institutions in this time of pandemic,” Chincuanco said.

The PSFAAI said today’s event is in solidarity with the Filipino people in commemorating the 158th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio.

To honor Bonifacio’s heroism, members of the PSFAAI based in Manila have also laid a wreath this morning in front of the statue of the “Father of Philippine Revolution” at the Vinzon’s Hall of the University of the Philippines.

The daylong activity paid homage to sanduguan or blood compact, the solemn rite of the brave members of the Kataas-taasan, Kagalang-galangan Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, who joined the revolutionary movement that Bonifacio founded in 1892 by signing their names with their own blood, the group added.

Pi Sigma was founded by student leaders at the University of the Philippines in Diliman in 1972, a month before martial law was declared. The organization’s mottos are “Paglingkuran ang Sambayanan” and “Paragon of Scholarship.”

Chincuanco added his group has been conducting community outreach activities in various depressed communities in Pampanga since the 1990s.