I’ve received a couple of posting requests by email:
A member of the Pittsburgh community, fourteen-year-old Amy Katz, is fighting leukemia. Amy’s Army exists to find a bone marrow donor for Amy, and in the process help others to find their matches. This Mother’s Day, Join the National Marrow Donor Program‘s Thanks Mom Marrow Donor Drive.
Join free for a limited time. The test kits are available on a first come first serve basis…so to order ASAP starting May 7th!
In honor of Mother’s Day, people from across the country will be working together with one goal in mind: to save lives. This May 7th through the 21st, be part of the National Donor Program‘s Thanks Mom Marrow Donor Drive and help us reach our goal of recruiting 20,000 new donors during the event.
A simple cheek-swab test kit will be mailed to you for FREE!
For many, the inspiration is Amy Katz, a vibrant, motivated 14-year-old who happens to have an adult form of leukemia affecting less than five percent of children. The only known cure for her cancer is a bone marrow transplant, however, she, and thousands like her have not yet found a match among the 10 million donors on the worldwide database.
Amy’s Army was formed to help Amy find her match by hosting marrow screening drives in order to register more potential donors. These drives have registered over 8,000 new donors and created matches for 13 other patients, but not for Amy.
The web site of Amy’s Army is http://www.amysarmy.org/
ALSO:
National Association of Letter Carriers and Campbell Soup Company‘s Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest food drive- all participants have to do is place non-perishable food by their mailboxes on May 12th.