For the second year in a row, graduates of the Medical School in Rijeka responded to the campaign to register in the Croatian register of potential donors of hematopoietic stem cells, organized in cooperation with the Ana Rukavina Foundation, and showed their great humane heart. 30 young graduates responded to the campaign. The entire action was held in cooperation with […]

According to the Typing Report of the Clinical Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation Biology of KBC Zagreb, 165 samples of potential donors were typed. The samples were typed on 6 loci: HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQB1 and HLA-DPB1, using the NGS method, and now the number of typed potential donors is 63,516. We sincerely thank everyone who decided to […]

In cooperation with the Josip Jović Police Academy, we held the tenth joint campaign for registration in the Croatian Register of Voluntary Donors of Blood Stem Cells, where 108 young participants of the Academy registered in the Croatian Register. With this campaign, the Croatian Registry reached 64,614 registered potential benevolent donors of hematopoietic stem cells. Mrs. Maja Krajcar, the shift […]

7 new potential donors joined us at the registration event in the Croatian Register of Voluntary Donors of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Garešnica. The action was held at the invitation of Mrs. Melita Lozina, head of the Red Cross Garešnica. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for organizing the action, and endless thanks to all the citizens who […]

After 17 years in Makarska, a city with a big soul and heart 6.4. In 2024, the action “The medicine is within us” was organized by the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the Red Cross Makarska. A lot of symbolism in the whole campaign from the date of the event (the first Saturday after Easter), emotions (founding of the Foundation and […]

Our dear Ana was born on today’s date in 1977.  The words “I want life” are the wings on which her vision still flies today. Those two powerful words are the initiators of this whole story that has been going on for 18 years. Ana is no longer with us physically, but her words, strength and charisma live on. Ana, […]

We are happy because in February a valuable transplant of hematopoietic stem cells from an unrelated Croatian donor was performed for a patient from Germany. Thanks to the selfless donors of hematopoietic stem cells, the total number of transplants increased to 171 and thus 171 patients were given hope for life! Many thanks to all the donors who decided to […]

On Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at the Maksimir Stadium, thanks to the invitation of the Nema Predaje Foundation, a registration campaign was successfully held in the Croatian Register of Voluntary Donors of Hematopoietic Stem Cells, where 8 potential donors joined us. This was the first action of the year in Zagreb, and healthy citizens between the ages of 18 and […]