How to Launch a Bone Marrow Donor Drive
Cristina is a Canadian citizen of Italian ancestry who needs someone in the 35 cooperative, international, Bone Marrow Registries to be her marrow match and help save her life.
Cristina Di Corte is 25 years old and suffers from a disease so rare you've probably never heard of it before. Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE) is an inherited condition that has caused her digestive tract to no longer be able to move food through her body or absorb nutrients from it.
A bone marrow transplant won't cure her, but can stop MNGIE's progress and has the potential to prolong Cristina's life by decades. Because no one in her immediate family was a marrow match, for Cristina to have a future that includes the kind of quality of life we would all want, she must now rely on the kindness of a stranger to donate their bone marrow (aka stem cells) to her.
How to Launch a Bone Marrow Donor Drive