Match4Elsa

A personal thank you note from Elsa: "First of all, I am very thankful to my Almighty God to gave me a second chance to see these days again!!Second, I want to thank you all who were worrying and praying day and night about my health. I'm Doing Great and everything is coming back :- the hair,weight,happiness smile ..... Because of your prayers, generosity, unconditional love and kindness I feel much better, am regaining my strength, learned many things....I don't have enough... word to explain my feelings and thanks. Just God Bless you all!!! " See more

Meet Daljit Daljit’s life was saved because of an unrelated stem cell donor. Now Daljit is a passionate advocate for the ethnic diversity of stem cell regis...trants. Come say hello to Daljit & get swabbed to be a potential stem cell donor at our #ThanksMomGiveLife2018 campaign at Guildford Town Centre this weekend! #itsinyoutogive #savealife #givelife #stemcell #surrey #inspirational See more

Hoping lots of people turn out to support Rajie and so many others over the weekend.

A personal thank you note from Elsa: "First of all, I am very thankful to my Almighty God to gave me a second chance to see these days again!!Second, I want to thank you all who were worrying and praying day and night about my health. I'm Doing Great and everything is coming back :- the hair,weight,happiness smile ..... Because of your prayers, generosity, unconditional love and kindness I feel much better, am regaining my strength, learned many things....I don't have enough... word to explain my feelings and thanks. Just God Bless you all!!! " See more

Join the #ThanksMomGiveLife2018 crew this weekend (May 5th & 6th) at Guildford Town Centre to get swabbed to find out if you could potentially save Luke’s life. #itsinyoutogive #savealife #mothersday

Meet Daljit Daljit’s life was saved because of an unrelated stem cell donor. Now Daljit is a passionate advocate for the ethnic diversity of stem cell regis...trants. Come say hello to Daljit & get swabbed to be a potential stem cell donor at our #ThanksMomGiveLife2018 campaign at Guildford Town Centre this weekend! #itsinyoutogive #savealife #givelife #stemcell #surrey #inspirational See more

Hoping lots of people turn out to support Rajie and so many others over the weekend.

Such an inspiring woman.

Really looking forward to this event in Surrey at the weekend. Come and get your cheek swabbed to help Elsa and many others.

See the video from Rhett and Link that inspired thousands to join the registry this week: http://bit.ly/2oY0JEs

Well worth seeing and sharing.

Update from London.. Teklay Kassa, Elsa’s cousin in London, has been steadfastly working with many Ethiopian church groups throughout the capital. During November and December he managed to register another 70 new donors - and he hasn’t finished yet! A huge thank you to all the churches leaders who have been so open and friendly in welcoming Teklay into their churches and to the congregations who have registered to help a fellow Ethiopian.... London Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Big thanks to all the sebeca gubae members (the leadership group) especially Rev. Kefyalew, Brother Birhane and Brother Aynalem. Thanks also to the congregation of the Emanuel Ethiopian Evangelical church, North London and their wonderful leader Mrs Yeshi. Amazing work Teklay!

Fantastic news - Elsa is now reunited with her sister and brother! Miky and Gally arrived safely in Vancouver at the weekend and will now be able to help and support the family. They are here on student visas and will be starting at Langara college this month. Thanks to everyone who supported the petition to bring the family together and for the stellar work of Vancouver lawyer Fritz Gaerdes. You really helped to turn it around. Sometimes amazing things happen! Here are some photos of their arrival in chilly Toronto and happily reunited with Elsa in their new home in Vancouver.

Big news from Toronto: OneMatch held a donor drive at a church in Toronto and gained a whopping 75 new donors! (all African or Caribbean ). Many thanks to the team at OneMatch Canadian Blood Services www.Onematch.ca

Fabulous news from London, UK: Big thanks to Teklay Kassa in London who has been visiting many churches around London organizing donor drives. The latest drive took place at St Gabriel Ethiopian Orthodox Church and gained 21 new donors. Thank you to Father Gebregiorgis, the priest at St Gabriel, who welcomed Teklay to his church for the donor drive. Teklay has been fortunate to be introduced to Veronica Karawa, a wonderful Kenyan woman who will be helping him regularly on Sundays at churches across London. Veronica lost her son Kevin to Leukemia and set up a charity in his name - the Kevin Kararwa Leukaemia Trust (KKL) Trust. Big thanks to Veronica for helping us in London and thanks to DKMS UK for the introduction. Together we can expand the registry and help so many more people. https://www.facebook.com/KKLTrust/?fref=mentions

We've just reached 1,000 new donors! Thank you so much to everyone who has swabbed their cheeks to join the worldwide registry in Elsa's name. (We've actually reached 1,011 so far - and counting. When we started the campaign less than 5 months ago, we didn't dream that we would get this far. We won't know for a few weeks whether any of the new people are a match for Elsa but here's hoping. Even if you are not a match for Elsa you may save another person's life. ... Words cannot express our appreciation to everyone who has registered and all who have volunteered their time to make this happen. Huge thanks to Anthony Nolan, Bethematch.org, Canadian Blood Services, DKMS UK, DKMS US, The ACLT (African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust) and @admo for your help sharing Elsa's story and organizing donor drives. You guys are truly amazing! We could not have done this without Jessica Pålsson, Len-nard Yambot, Tori Fairhurst, Sharon Alstad, Amanda Holk, Lisa Nugent Dkms, Jeana Moore, Becca Garber, Trudi Goels, Sarah Jasmins, Sue Clarke, David Oppenheimer PAC, Ermias Aytenfisu, Jon Ware, Robyn Henwood, Jenna Knutson, Chris Van Doorn, Nadia Stewart Global BC, Mychaylo Prystupa, Patrick Dell The Globe and Mail, Amy Reid Surrey Now-Leader Newspaper, Cory Correia CBC News, Paige Gross The Seattle Times, Helen Show .. and so many more..