WEBSITE: www.stepstomarrow.com

Jada Bascom, my grandaughter, was born with acute myeloid leukemia; she had a bone marrow transplant when she was 6 months old. Jada is in remission and living happily with her parents in Deer Park, WA.

In order to express our gratitude to the innumerable people it took to save Jada’s life and to support our family through this crisis we began the Jada Bascom Foundation. The foundation is sponsoring Steps To-Marrow, in which I, Jada’s grandmother, Jeana Moore, will be walking from Seattle to Los Angeles and Los Angeles to New York City, to raise awareness around the need for bone marrow donors and to recruit potential bone marrow donors for the National Bone Marrow Registry.

We hope that through our efforts many people will find their match just like Jada did.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Steps To-Marrow San Francisco Walk


Steps To-Marrow San Francisco Walk
Dear Friends, 2/9/09
As I was walking through Oregon I had the idea that I would like to invite others to walk with me in San Francisco. We gathered today in Golden Gate Park at the Music Concourse and walked to San Francisco State University where we followed with a bone marrow donor drive. Some of the people who came to walk with me had read about the Steps To-Marrow project online, some I had worked with at the Peacemaker Community, some were friends of these other connections, some were connected through people I had met earlier in my walk and some were family members. We all wore signs as we walked to bring awareness to the need for bone marrow donors. We got to know each other better and shared ideas to continue to increase the numbers on the National Bone Marrow Registry. My thanks and gratitude to all of you who joined me on the first of the Steps To-Marrow Donor Awareness Walks.
At SFSU we held an online bone marrow donor drive with the National Bone Marrow Registry for Viet Lam. I extend my gratitude to all of the students who took the time to sign up. We are still awaiting final numbers for the drive.

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