The finances raised by citizens calling the Foundation’s humanitarian hotline number, 060 9000, have been used towards tissue typing 1000 new blood samples using the molecular method for HLA loci A, B and DRB1. These donors have been added to the Croatian Registry.
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Four years of the Foundation
Four years ago today, the decision was brought for the Foundation to be established and formally and legally begin its activities.
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Donation from the students at Ivana Brlić Mažuranić Elementary School
The students and teachers at the Ivana Brlić Mažuranić Rokovci – Andrijaševci Elementary School donated 3,171.75 kuna to the Foundation.
>>Happy New Year!
To all of the Foundation’s donators, friends and partners, as well as all dear people, we wish you a happy 2011!
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HDZ donates 50,000 kuna to the Ana Rukavina Foundation
For the last five years, HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) has traditionally made a humanitarian donation to the Ana Rukavina Foundation instead of spending money on a lavish New Year’s party!
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537,516 kuna raised for the Ana Rukavina Foundation
By calling the hotline number 060 9000 during the great humanitarian concert, citizens donated 537,516 kuna, which will enable us to have 495 new blood samples tissue typed and entered into the Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors. The traditional humanitarian Christmas concert “I want life” was held for the fifth year in a row and thus heralded in the fifth anniversary of the work of the Ana Rukavina Foundation in 2011.
>>Thank You Concert on Jelačić Square
The great humanitarian concert “I want life” will be held on Jelačić Square on December 21st at 8 PM. The Foundation organizes this concert to thank all those who have helped and supported the Foundation’s work in the last year.
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5,000 stamps donated to the Foundation
The Croatian Journalists’ Association has celebrated its 100 year anniversary, and to mark the celebration of this occasion the Croatian Post Office printed commemorative stamps. The Croatian Journalist’s Association encouraged the Croatian Post Office to donate 5,000 stamps to the Ana Rukavina Foundation.
>>C&A supports the Ana Rukavina Foundation by making a donation
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.
>>“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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