Manoa Elementary School third grader searching for bone marrow match
 While most 8-year olds are playing video games or participating in an after school sport, Mitchell Ganeku is fighting for his life.
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Mitchell Ganeku needs your help. The eight-year old has been diagnosed with aplastic anemia, and is desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant. By registering as a bone marrow donor, you could potentially help save his life or someone else's.
To help find a donor for Ganeku, and others in need of transplants, the Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry will be holding various donor drives in February.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
80th Annual Kamehameha Schools Ho'olaulea
Kapalama Campus
1887 Makuakane St.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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It only takes a swab of the mouth to find out if you're a potential match for someone.
Donors must be between the ages of 18 and 60 and in good general health. Donors need only to register once. If you have already registered and need to update your information or would like more information about becoming a donor, please call the Registry at 547-6154 or visit our national website at www.marrow.org»
The Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry was founded in 1989 and joined the National Marrow Donor Program to help patients in Hawaii and all over the world find healthy and willing bone marrow or blood stem cell donors. Only 30 percent of patients will find matching donors within their families; therefore, others need to find unrelated matches. Matches are more easily found between people of the same ethnic background. Since 1989, the HBMDR has recruited approximately 68,000 registered donors throughout Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa. Over 251 of those donors have actually donated bone marrow or blood stem cells for patients all over the world.
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