Event Details
When you show up you will check in at the Welcome Table where you will be asked to sign a consent form and watch a short video. Following the video, we ask you to fill out a health form to ensure elgibility. Finally, you will be asked to swab your cheek for the registry and then you are finished and welcome to enjoy the provided refreshments. For more information please visit the Frequently Asked Questions.
About the Drive
Washburn AMSA will be hosting a bone marrow registry drive in partnership with the National Bone Marrow program. The event is set for May 8th from 11 to 6. We have partnered with another national organization called "Thanks Mom" that will provide all of the funding for the registry. Normally, the registry would cost $52 a person. We are hoping to get a strong response from Washburn students, but this event is also open to the community. It is a quick process and will only take about 20 minutes of your day on the day of the event. The registry is non-intrusive and only requires a cheek swab to enter yourself into the registry. Imagine, you could save a young kid like Alex. a 13 year old that practices karate with her brother Matt and who is a voracious reader. She was lucky enough to find a donor who gave her the chance to grow up, to play...to just be a kid. Please make a choice to take 20 minutes out of your day and register to the bone marrow registry, so you may one day be able to save someones life!
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The Process
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When you show up you will check in at the Welcome Table where you will be asked to sign a consent form and watch a short video. Following the video, we ask you to fill out a health form to ensure elgibility. Finally, you will be asked to swab your cheek for the registry and then you are finished and welcome to enjoy the provided refreshments. For more information please visit the Frequently Asked Questions.
About the Drive
Washburn AMSA will be hosting a bone marrow registry drive in partnership with the National Bone Marrow program. The event is set for May 8th from 11 to 6. We have partnered with another national organization called "Thanks Mom" that will provide all of the funding for the registry. Normally, the registry would cost $52 a person. We are hoping to get a strong response from Washburn students, but this event is also open to the community. It is a quick process and will only take about 20 minutes of your day on the day of the event. The registry is non-intrusive and only requires a cheek swab to enter yourself into the registry. Imagine, you could save a young kid like Alex. a 13 year old that practices karate with her brother Matt and who is a voracious reader. She was lucky enough to find a donor who gave her the chance to grow up, to play...to just be a kid. Please make a choice to take 20 minutes out of your day and register to the bone marrow registry, so you may one day be able to save someones life!
Links
The Process
Facts and Figures
1700 SW College
Topeka, KS 66621
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Thanks Mom Campaign Sponsored Marrow Registry Drive
"Say Thanks Mom! to your mother for the life that she gave to you by offering that same gift to someone else. Consider becoming a life-saving marrow donor by joining the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Registry during the Thanks Mom! Marrow Donor Drive. What better way to honor your mother?"
We would like to give a very big thanks to St. Francis Healthcare for sponsoring this event and helping us deliver the information to the community.
Links
National Marrow Donor Program
Frequently Asked Questions
"Say Thanks Mom! to your mother for the life that she gave to you by offering that same gift to someone else. Consider becoming a life-saving marrow donor by joining the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Registry during the Thanks Mom! Marrow Donor Drive. What better way to honor your mother?"
We would like to give a very big thanks to St. Francis Healthcare for sponsoring this event and helping us deliver the information to the community.
Links
National Marrow Donor Program
Frequently Asked Questions
