The Icla da Silva Foundation

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Register as a Bone Marrow Donor. Save lives! National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)

 

Be the Match & Icla da Silva

The Be the Match Marrow Registry is the sole federally funded and Congressionally authorized stem cell registry in the United States. Since its foundation in 1986 through December 2009, the NMDP celebrated 40,000 successful transplants and is today the world largest registry of potential bone marrow or cord blood transplant donors.

The Icla da Silva Foundation is proud to share the Be the Match success. In the last 17 years the Foundation has grown to become one the largest recruitment center for the Be the Match Registry, helping to create a more ethnic diverse registry.

As an affiliated recruitment center and donor center focused on minority volunteer donors, the Foundation runs over 650 drives each year and has enlisted over 122,000 (30,000 as of Nov. 2009) potential bone marrow donors. The Icla da Silva Foundation provides outreach/ educational programs to many communities and offers logistical, emotional and financial support to patients and families all over the world.

Seventy percent of patients suffering from leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases won’t find a suitable match within their own family.  That's why every day an average of 6,000 people search the NMDP and seeks support from the Icla da Silva Foundation to find donor.

The Icla da Silva Foundation goal is to connect more and more ethnic diverse patients to possible volunteer non-related bone marrow or cord blood transplant donors increasing their hope and chances of survival.