The company C&A, a world renown fashion house, has made a donation worth 8,500 kuna to support the years of effort made by the Ana Rukavina Foundation in order to save as many leukemia sufferers as possible. The entire amount of the donation will be used toward expanding the Registry of voluntary bone marrow donors and to HLA tissue type the collected blood samples, both of which increase the patients’ chances of finding a bone marrow donor.
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“Students for the Ana Rukavina Foundation”
For the fifth year in a row, the Ana Rukavina Foundation will organize the traditional humanitarian Christmas concert “I want life” on Ban Jelačić Square. The students of the Medical School and the Student Union of the University of Zagreb will also organize an action for people to join the Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors. On the day of the concert, December 21, 2010, between 12 PM and 4:30 PM, all citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 are invited to come in front of the advent stage to donate blood samples and become potential saviors of someone’s life.
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“I want life” – great humanitarian spectacle to thank all the citizens
For the fifth year in a row, the Ana Rukavina Foundation has organized their traditional humanitarian Christmas concert on Ban Jelačić Square, which will start at 8 PM on December 21st. The concert is to thank all the benevolent people who since the very beginning of the Foundation’s work have unselfishly helped its work and mission in order to offer the hope of life to those fighting against hematological diseases.
>>Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide
17,314 HLA tissue typed blood samples from voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors in Croatia have been added to the world registry – Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide.
>>1,000 new blood samples from potential stem cell donors have been tissue typed
In the period between November 3 and December 3, 2010, there were 1,000 new blood samples from potential stem cell donors tissue typed using the DNA typing method for HLA A, B and DRB1 (HLA – Human leukocyte antigen). The total number of samples that have been HLA tissue typed is now 19,275.
>>The Foundation’s number, 060 9000, is active as of yesterday
As of December 1st, the charity hotline number, 060 9000, is active. All well-intentioned citizens may call this number and donate 6.15 kuna in order to contribute to the tissue typing of the blood samples that have already been collected and will be entered in the Registry of potential bone marrow donors. The humanitarian action which led to the activation of this charity hotline will culminate on December 21st with a concert on Ban Josip Jelačić Square
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Remembering Ana 4th.
November 26th marks the four year anniversary of Ana Rukavina leaving us!
>>Donation from the Crnobori family
The Crnobori family has donated 6,000 kn to the Foundation in memory of the late Ivan Crnobori!
>>Bone Marrow donors Worldwide
17,315 HLA tissue typed blood samples from voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors in Croatia have been added to the world registry – Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide.
>>All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day
On the holidays All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, we remember our most loved who are no longer with us. The cemeteries and final resting places have become the locations for expressing our appreciation and remembering them!
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