Add Marrow Donors: Eliminate Leukemia Worldwide

Dear benefactors,

Happy New Year 2020!

May 2020 be generous with good events! 

We wish you good moments and positive emotions!

All the best in 2020!

Now let's sum up the results of the past 2019.

The most remarkable achievement of 2019 was that two 2 donors from our Registry donated bone marrow cells for patients with leukemia. We hope that the disease will forever recede, and our dear patients will be completely healthy.

In other eight cases, our donors turned out to be fully compatible with the patients, but it didn’t come to transplantation. In total, over the year we received 127 requests for bone marrow donors from Russia, Turkey, Great Britain, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Kazakhstan and other countries. We have never had so many requests before. 

Throughout the year, we continued to actively recruit new potential donors.  Residents of various regions of Russia sent us envelopes with samples, and residents of Karelia entered the Registry during our campaigns or came to our office to join the Registry.

Six hundred one individual decided to become potential bone marrow donors, and now the Karelian Registry counts 5132 people.  The barrier of 5 thousand has been successfully overcome!

And we didn’t stop there:

• We talked about bone marrow donation in classrooms and in offices, on the volleyball court, football stadium, paintball and at the software programmers’ contests, in the library and in the cinema, as part of business meetings and national conferences, at city events and children's parties, on television and on the radio;
• We shared happy stories of cancer patients and introduced you to our donors and conducted surveys;
• We raised funds to recruit new donors in the register;
• We got acquainted with new organizations and new people who have become our good friends and partners.

The Karelian Registry of Bone Marrow Donors continues to grow. Thank you for being with us! Thanks to your participation and support! Together, in 2020 we will become even closer to our common goal - to defeat leukemia!

Happy New Year!

Sincerely, 

Andrey Varshukov

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