“Saving one life is like saving the entire world,” states Gift of Life’s website.
What’s Gift of Life? One of the nation’s public bone marrow, blood stem cell and umbilical cord blood registries. Through its life-saving work, Gift of Life is a world leader facilitating transplants for children and adults suffering from many life-threatening diseases, among them leukemia and lymphoma.
Gift of Life has been a leader in the world of donor registries. It was the first to utilize bloodless (buccal swab) testing routinely at donor recruitment drives, and we will be hosting one of these very drives on Sunday at Jewlicious!
The Jewish bone marrow bank is actually extremely limited and insufficient; it is, in fact, part of the lingering aftermath of the Holocaust. We are thrilled to have Gift of Life represented at Sunday’s vendor fair, and are looking forward to expanding the Jewish bone marrow bank as a result.
To life!
