In June and July of this year, three more donations of hematopoietic stem cells from non-related voluntary donors were successfully carried out!

In the period from July 19, 2011 to August 17, 2011, there were 800 new blood samples from stern cell donors tissue typed using the molecular method for HLA locus A, B and DRB1.

Dean Ćakić, a journalist and the graphic editor of Labinština.info, has donated hematopoietic stem cells to a boy from Sweden!

In the period from May 20, 2011 to June 16, 2011, there were 1000 new blood samples from stem cell donors tissue typed using the molecular method for HLA loci A, B, and DRB1.

The Local Organization of the SDP Podsljeme has organized a “Humanitarian Gulašijada” (stew cook-off) in Vidovac. All of the proceeds will be donated to the Ana Rukavina Foundation.

All those who were at the race last year and the year before surely know about the great friendship between the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the race. Every year the organizer takes a portion of the race’s proceeds and deposits it into the Foundation’s giro account.

In April of 2010, Mrs. Anka Šupak from Rijeka lost her battle against leukemia. According to her last will and testament, she left her movable property to the Ana Rukavina Foundation, which was paid into the Foundation’s giro account in the amount of 117,000 kuna.

The “Zlatno Srce” Association from Zabok has donated 5,000 kuna to the Ana Rukavina Foundation to carry out HLA tissue typing of blood samples from voluntary stem cell donors!

20,809 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.