Lisa wants to live! | Lucia’s example gives hope for Lisa – help us!

Lucia and Lisa. Both girls are 10 years old and both share one fate: Lucia has cancer of the blood at the age of 4. A suitable stem cell donor could be found for you. She is fine today.

A few weeks ago, Lisa from Stadtbergen suffered from blood cancer for the second time. And only a stem cell transplant can save her life. No suitable donor has been found for her worldwide. To help the elementary school student and other patients, now takes place on 07/20/2014 a registration campaign to win new stem cell donors in Stadtbergen / Leitershofen (we reported).

A similar wave of willingness to help was already rolling through the region in 2008.

The then 4-year-old Lucia was diagnosed with blood cancer and dependent on a stem cell donation. Under the motto “Help for Lucia and others”, over 4,200 people followed the call for help in May 2008 and were accepted as potential stem cell donors in the DKMS in the Osterfeldhalle in Stadtbergen.

Fortunately, a suitable donor could be found for Lucia. Today the 10-year-old, who is now in the 4th grade of primary school, is doing well.

And not only Lucia got hope and strength from the overwhelming participation in the registration campaign at that time. Many other affected people also benefited from the willingness of the more than 4,200 new registrants to donate stem cells. To date, 86 people affected by a stem cell donation from this campaign have been given a chance of survival.

So that a suitable donor can also be found for Lisa and that she, like Lucia, can go back to school as soon as possible, there will be a campaign on Sunday, July 20 to win new potential stem cell donors from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Oswald-Merk-Halle in Stadtbergen ,

Basically every healthy person between 17 and 55 years can participate. After filling out a declaration of consent, five milliliters of blood are taken from the donor so that his tissue characteristics can be determined (typed). Donors who have already registered for a campaign in the past do not have to participate in the campaign again. Your data will still be available to all patients.

Financial support for the campaign is just as important. The registration and typing of a donor costs DKMS 50. As a non-profit organization, DKMS relies solely on cash donations to attract new donors. In order to be able to carry out the planned action at all, we need your financial help! Every euro counts!

DKMS donation account
IBAN DE12720501010030342927, BIC BYLADEM1AUG

Every 16 minutes in Germany, a person gets blood cancer, including many children and adolescents. For many patients, like Lisa, the transmission of healthy stem cells is the only chance of survival. With more than 4,200,000 registered stem cell donors, the DKMS family is the world’s largest network of files. An average of 15 DKMS donors donate stem cells every day. However, no suitable donor can be found for many patients. It is therefore important that as many people as possible be included in the file.

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