We are inviting all fans of old timer and classic cars to the Croatian championship car race “Stjepan Lepčin Cup 2008” which will be held in Oroslavje on August 31, 2008.

Thanks to all of you who have joined the Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cells donors, given blood samples for tissue typing, and have financially contributed to the development of the Registry, today we have 4,553 tissue typed samples.

The humanitarian action “I want life” is still moving ahead with great strides and the number of tissue types samples has now reached to 5,774. 

The Association of Croatian Patients and the “For a New Day” association presented a new brochure at the Zrinjevac Park pavilion earlier today. The brochure’s title is “A Little Book of Instructions for Patients Suffering from Malignatnt Diseases”.

Since it is impossible for us to come to each and every address and personally thank all the wonderful people who have arranged for a standing order from their account in order to contribute to the work of the Foundation to expand the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors, with this letter we would like to sincerely thank all of you for recognizing the Ana Rukavina Foundation as an organization which promotes values such as humanity, love and care for mankind. 

Two days ago, the wonderful Fišić family from Novi Travnik visited us. Their daughter, 17 year old Martina, who is fighting her own battle with acute leukemia, sent us this mail which we simply have to share with you:

Thanks to all of you who have joined the Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cells donors, given blood samples for tissue typing, and have financially contributed to the development of the Registry, today we have 4,553 tissue typed samples. 

Today we were overflowing with emotions at Štarkelj Auto Salon as we returned the Renault Traffic which Mr. Štarkelj had lent us for the purpose of organizing actions to join the Registry. Without the donation of the van, in which we passed 44,303 km all around Croatia, it would have been difficult to successfully carry out 160 actions in some 90 locations. It has been extremely tough on us because we were reminded of all the wonderful people who helped to organize our actions and the lines of people who wished to join the first Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors.

Marija Rukavina, the director of the Ana Rukavina Foundation, accepted another worthy award yesterday on behalf of the Foundation. The recognition of “Person of the Dialogue – Person of the Year” is given by the Croatian Academic Society Split – Man Above All, a non-profit organization whose principal goal is to promote Christian values and thus to contribute to the prosperity of society and individuals. The Society has recognized the Foundation as an organization which contributes to the quality of life in Croatia.