It will be conducted by the DKMS Foundation’s Stem Cell Donor Database. The following are joining the organization of the campaign: Legnica Cultural Centre, the police, municipal police, the State Fire Service and volunteers.
Mr Grzegorz, a 36-year-old resident of Legnica, received his diagnosis in April this year: acute myeloid leukemia... He is currently undergoing his third, highly aggressive course of chemotherapy. “We have a four-year-old daughter. My husband has someone to fight for,” says Mr Grzegorz’s wife. “I believe so strongly that we will manage to find a bone marrow donor for my husband...”
The campaign will take place on August 23 and 24. On the first day, saliva samples will be collected from volunteers in Legnica’s Market Square (9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.) using a swab. It is a very simple smear taken from the inside of the cheek. On the second day (9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.), blood will be collected from donor candidates at the Knights’ Academy (ground floor, at the entrance to the Music School from Chojnowska Street 2).
In connection with the campaign, the Legnica Cultural Centre is looking for volunteers who would like to help register potential bone marrow donors. Volunteers will be trained in this field by DKMS Foundation employees on Saturday morning, before the campaign begins. They will also be needed to distribute information leaflets in the Market Square and Municipal Park during the two days preceding the campaign, in the afternoon.
The organizers are also looking for bands, vocalists, artists and others who could enhance the campaign in the Market Square with their performances or shows. People interested in volunteering are asked to contact the Legnica Cultural Centre at 2 Chojnowska Street, tel. 76 723 37 00.
Residents of Legnica are warmly encouraged to come to the Market Square and the Knights’ Academy on August 23 and 24. In this way, you can save someone’s life. Ms Katarzyna Jabłońska is the best example. She registered with the DKMS Foundation’s database several years ago. It was only a year and a half ago that her biological twin was found—a seriously ill boy from Germany who was not yet one year old. She donated bone marrow at a clinic in Gliwice. “I felt well after the procedure, and later experienced wonderful moments when I learned that the child had recovered,” the woman says.
(Legnica Municipal Office/ii)