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

UC Berkeley




UC Berkeley
Dear Friends, 2/11/10
We were able to hold a drive today at UC Berkeley. My niece, Amelia, will graduate from UC Berkeley this May. She is the one who originated the drive. Then the UC Berkeley Colleges against Cancer Chapter stepped up to sponsor the drive and supplied volunteers to make the drive a success. Magda Silva from the National Bone Marrow registry brought the expertise, materials and more volunteers. The Jada Bascom Foundation hosted the drive for Viet Lam. We enrolled 62 new potential donors. My gratitude to all!
The night before I spoke with the Colleges Against Cancer students. They are in the midst of their planning for their annual Relay For Life event. So I really appreciate the time they gave me to talk about the ease of joining the National Bone Marrow Registry and the importance of joining.
The momentum from the walk is building I am waiting to hear the results of two drives held in Oregon in Feb. We are approaching 500 new enrollments with the registry and we have more drives scheduled for March.

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