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Jacqueline Donahue
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Make Checks payable to:
4Sho4Kids Foundation
c/o JesUs4Jackie
7800 Forsyth Ave.
Clayton, MO 63105
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Marrow Registry Campaign
Established June 2003
Founder Jackie Donahue / Cornell Haynes
Campaign through 4Sho4Kids, Nelly's Non-Profit Foundation
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For More Information:
Phone: 1-888-211-2775 or 1-314-531-3346 Fax: 1-314-743-4260
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To education African-Americans and Blacks about the need for bone marrow and stem cell transplant. |
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To sign more African Americans to Donor Registry Programs to save lives. |
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Because more African-Americans are needed to help save lives. There
is an alarming rate of African-American children and adults in this country
who are on the marrow registry waiting a marrow or stem cell transplant without
donors |
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It is estimated that 44,240 men and women (24,800 men and 19,440 women) will be diagnosed with and 21,790 men and women will die of leukemia in 20071 |
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AML (according to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society) new cases 10,500 in 20032 |
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Over 670,00 people are living with leukemia in the US2 |
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1Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2007
2(Stats from National Cancer Society)
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Marrow helps to cure Sickle Cell anemia according to the studies at Children's Health Care of Atlanta
and Emory University. One out of every 400 African Americans in the US has sickle cell or the trait.
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