What's REALLY Going ON Volume 1, Issue #5 | Page 33

SPECIAL HUMAN INTEREST STORY WANTED: One Stem Cell Donor For Sina Cologne / Kamp-Lintfort - The 10-year-old Sina from KampLintfort is to MDS ill. Only a stem cell donation from a matched donor can help her. To help her and other patients who organized DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor-profit organization mbH on 18/05/2014 a registration action. Everyone can help: If you are healthy and aged between 18 and 55 years, must register as a donor and everyone can donate money to allow the typing financially. Lintfort Anyone can participate in principle, any healthy person between 18 and 55 years. After filling out a consent form to the donor are taken five milliliters of blood, so that its tissue characteristics determined (typed) can be. Donors who already had registered in the past in an action itself, must not rejoin the action. Your data remain available for all patients. Equally important is also the financial support of the action. Registration and typing of a donor cost to DKMS 50 euros. As a non-profit organization, DKMS is dependent on the donor renewal extraction solely on donations. In order to carry out the planned action at all, we need your financial help! Every euro counts! MDS is a disorder of the hematopoietic system. Sina can only survive if it - somewhere in the world - a man with almost the same tissue characteristics in the blood are willing to donate stem cells. But how do you find such a donor? It is very rare that two people have nearly identical tissue characteristics. In the best case, the probability is 1:20,000, with rare tissue features can be found possibly with several million no 'genetic twin'. However, the search is also so hard because still are too few people as potential stem cell donor is available. Because: Who can not be included on a donor can not be found. DKMS donations account for Sina: IBAN DE40350500000200159903, BIC DUISDE33XXX http://www.kamp-lintfort.de/ C1257537002B239A/0/7794A21599C477FCC1257CC80 02A1E4C To help Sina and stakeholders, organize friends and family together with the DKMS registration action and hope that as many people from the region can determine the tissue characteristics of their blood. Anyone who is a potential stem cell donors in the DKMS can absorb another chance for patients worldwide and maybe tomorrow will be the giver of life. The action will take place on: Sunday, May 18, 2014 from 11:00 am bis 17:00 clock in the Ernst-Reuter-Schule, Mittelstr. 144, 47475 Kamp- SINA WANTS TO LIVE. ONLY THE STEM CELLS FROM A MATCHED DONOR CAN HELP. NOTE: Original article published in German but translated to English version. No changes made in order to preserve as much of the original message as possible. 33