The Ana Rukavina Foundation continues to expand its circle of friends throughout Croatia. A charity auction of paintings will be organized on September 20, 2008 in Hotel Valamar Diamant in Poreč under the auspices of the Valamar Tourist Group.

The wonderful performance by the Budapest Roma Symphony Orchestra and some of the best Hungarian violinists thrilled a big audience who enjoyed their open-air concert at Šalata. This unique group, which is made up of 6 cymbals, 60 violins, 9 violas, 6 cellos, 10 double basses and 9 clarinets, overjoyed the Zagreb public. 

The largest Roma symphony orchestra, the Budapest Gipsy Symphony Orchestra, otherwise known as “A Hundred Roma Violins”, will again perform in Zagreb. The concert will also be a charity event as part of the proceeds will go toward the Ana Rukavina Foundation.

From September 1 to December 31, 2008, the Croatian Post will regularly sell additional stamps of the Ana Rukavina Foundation in post offices. The purchase of these stamps is voluntary and they can be used on all postal packages within Croatia.

For the second consecutive year, the city of Novigrad and the Tourist Board of Novigrad have teamed up to organize a charity fashion show for the Ana Rukavina Foundation. The following art

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.