Lending a hand to DKMS Africa using EasyEquities!

Our latest addition to our Donate for Good initiative is DKMS Africa (an organisation committed to one cause: fighting blood cancer and blood disorders); EasyVSTRs who love to lend a hand can donate to the organisation through the EasyEquities platform.

Who is DKMS Africa

The journeys of The Sunflower Fund and DKMS began similarly: in different corners of the world, the fate of patients suffering from leukaemia started a movement, a community of people committed to one cause: fighting blood cancer and blood disorders.

The Sunflower Fund was inspired by the heroic struggle against leukaemia of two brave young men, Darren Serebro (1997) and Chris Corlett (2000). DKMS was founded more than 30 years ago in Germany after Mechtild Harf’s family was told the only treatment for her leukaemia was a bone marrow transplant.

DKMS Africa aims to change the history of stem cell transplants in South Africa and globally. With a collective 51-year history of saving lives, in seven countries on 5 continents, The organization prides itself on being the premier organisation in Africa to recruit donors. Its mission is to create awareness about blood stem cell donation and to maintain a global registry of donors who are representative of the world’s diversity and ethnic background, and the goal is to recruit an ethnically diverse registry of donors committed to helping anyone in need of a life-saving transplant.

The organization raises awareness of blood cancer and blood disorders and treatments.

• Recruit stem cell donors to give those in need of a stem cell donation a second chance at life.
• Engage the public as well as companies to organise donor registration events.
• Raise funds to increase both the size and diversity of the worldwide pool of available stem cell donors.
• Help to improve blood cancer treatment – through its own research and state-of-the-art technology in its laboratory.
• Maintain our donor relationship from day one of registration until stem cell donation.

Compassion knows no geographical boundaries and we try to instill this as the core idea in our hearts which helps us to expand our global reach! - DKMS Africa

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