Wear your bandana on 12 Oct 2014

Have you bought your bandana  yet?

You can buy them for just R25 to show your support for National Bandana Day 2014 on the 12th October!

The Sunflower Fund National Bandana Day Campaign has a simple message this year: “We all have Hopes and Dreams for the future. By purchasing a bandana for R25 you could make a difference and offer those fighting leukaemia and other life threatening blood disorders a chance of a future”.

Please support this campaign and help make a difference in the lives of leukaemia sufferers. Funds raised through National Bandana Day go towards paying for the tissue typing (DNA) tests for new donors which costs The Sunflower Fund R2000-00 per person. Together, we can save more lives and we cannot do this without you.

The Sunflower Fund was formed in 1999 in support of the SABMR and was inspired by Chris Corlett and Darren Serebro’s heroic struggle against leukaemia. It was formed by parents whose children had contracted leukaemia, and in some cases had lost their battle against it.

Their aim was to secure financial support in order to increase the number of bone marrow stem cell donors in South Africa. With the odds of finding a donor being 1:100 000, the idea is to expand the registry to at least 100 000. You can help by joining the SABMR. All you have to do to be registered on the SABMR is to give two tubes of your blood. We need your fast response and long-term commitment.

The Sunflower Fund aims to educate and recruit a viable source of well-informed potential bone marrow stem cell donors who are ethnically diverse, in an effort to save the lives of those needing a transplant when suffering from life-threatening blood disorders. It strives to maintain the associated donor records of the South African Bone Marrow Registry.

via https://www.sunflowerfund.org.za/