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Read and share donor Info written in Japanese on the Helping Yoko Website
 
Join the Donor Program

If you are here not as a patient or adovacte but as someone who wants to join the marrow donor program to possibly be a match and save a life someday please visit:
Be The Match
where you can order a home test kit online or join in person by locating a live drive using their Zip Code locater.

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You can use this video for your own donor drive or donor program. The embed code is in the upper right corner. Just click on it then copy and paste the code into your own website or blog. We created this video with the intention of any patient or donor program using it on their own websites and blogs to help spread the word.


Public Access Television

You can contact your local Public Access TV Studio and ask if there are any programs that need guests that can come talk about the donor program and a particular patient's need. I was given this opportunity to help my cousin Tami and invited along another patient advocate like myself as well as the Executive Director of the Asian American Donor Program. The three of us explained how easy it is to register and the dispelled many myths about the donation process itself.

In the Fall of 2009 our segment won a major award. It won the first ever Community Activism Award and will be aired nationwide on Free Speech TV which is the public access channel of the DIsh Network. That's 30 million households!

As a guest it didn't cost me anything to participate in the show. The show itself paid a fee to enter the program in the competition but I wasn't even told until after it won!

You can copy this link to the Fired Up Productions website to send others to view the video using this URL:

http://firedupproductions.com/shows-page/season-13/152-wuwt-1303

Or to embed this video on your website or blog you can use the following code that includes the image files. It will take you to the Fired Up Productions website where the video is available to be viewed:

Myths and Facts About Marrow Donation
Learn the Truth About being a Marrow Donor. It is not excruciatingly painful, your marrow will regenerate itself, 70% of patients in need will not find a match in time and of the lucky ones who do 70% will receive their match from a stranger. CLICK HERE to learn more.

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Learn the Truth about being a Marrow Donor. It is not excruciatingly painful, your marrow will regenerate itself, 70% of patients in need will not find a match in time and of the lucky who do 70% will receive their match from a stranger. <a href="http://firedupproductions.com/shows-page/season-13/152-wuwt-1303" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to learn more.</a></div>


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