SUNDAY, 12 October is National Bandana Day and the Sunflower Fund encourages the public to buy a sunflower bandana from their nearest Pick n Pay or local Round Table.
Wear it to show your support towards the brave fight cancer patients face on a daily basis when they lose their hair from chemotherapy treatments.
For R25, buy your brightly-coloured sunflower bandana and contribute towards saving a life. Funds raised through National Bandana Day go towards paying for the expensive tissue-typing (DNA) tests for new donors to join the South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR). This offers patients the hope of finding a life-saving donor match.
“Support this campaign and help make a difference as together, we can save more lives. We cannot do this without your support,” said chief operating officer of the Sunflower Fund,Tarryn Corlett.
As a parent, all we wish for our children is for them to grow up happy, healthy and to achieve their own goals. Most children want to be a doctor, a chef, a policeman, a champion boxer or even a rock star. The possibilities for their future are endless. Just imagine if one day you receive that devastating diagnosis that your child has a life-threatening blood disorder like leukaemia.
All dreams are immediately shattered and your world becomes a dark, scary place filled with incredible emotion, terror and sheer helplessness. This time as a parent, your ever faithful ‘fix it’ band aid or comforting kiss, cannot make it better.
The reality for countless patients is the uncertainty of what the future holds for them as their dreams and aspirations are placed on hold. For many patients their only hope of survival is to receive a much-needed bone marrow stem cell transplant.
For more information on National Bandana Day or becoming a donor, call the toll free line on 0800-12-10-82 or visit www.sunflowerfund.org.za.
