04/11/2017
First, here are the results of the longest September campaign, timed to the world Day of bone marrow donors (16 September) and world day of fight against leukemia (24 September). It was the fifth and final event in the framework of the project "500+", which became a grant holder of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation. We exceeded our commitments! In total, 55 new donors have been recruiting during this campaign and 9 people, who are in the database and previously were typed with a minimum amount of parameters, passed the test for extended typing. The next recruiting campaign will be held on November 7th – 10th.
In total, for nine months of 2017 we have held 4 recruiting campaigns, which were attended by 465 people. 426 people became new potential bone marrow donors. 39 people, previously registered, passed the extra typing, and now their compatibility settings are complete and ready to be used in the global database.
And we have remarkable news to share with you: the Karelian Register is among the finalists of the prestigious award of one of the most respected charities in our country - "Gift of Life" https://podari-zhizn.ru/main/node/30072. This prize is annually awarded to nonprofit organizations that help children and young adults with hematological malignancies. We are so happy! This is recognition and appreciation of work of our entire team, all the volunteers, all who have provided platforms for our campaigns and helped to disseminate the information about the Registry. Thank you, everyone!