Tag: gift of life

The acclaimed director, Moira Blumenthal, has dedicated a performance of The Man in the Attic  to raise awareness about Gift of Life's life-saving program.

A Melbourne leukaemia patient has met the Sydney donor whose stem cells have saved his life...and both men were originally from South Africa.

Gift of Life volunteers and donors at Sydney's Moriah College Fair have learned that a donation made at the same venue last year has proved positive and that a life-saving match had been found.

The Gift of Life is appealing to all rabbis throughout Australia to ask suitable members of their congregations at Yom Kippur services to donate blood in an effort to save six Jewish lives.

Judy Baxt is a 46-hr-old schoolteacher chronic leukaemia which will not kill her - but it has placed her in a life threatening situation if her body is exposed to infection. She needs a bone marrow transplant...and she needs a Jewish match.

Among the 80,000 running and walking the City to Surf event in Sydney yesterday were several volunteers from Gift of Life Australia.

Sarah is five and in need of the Gift of Life...matching blood stem cells or bone marrow to give her the opportunity of a normal healthy life.

A Sydney-based lawyer whose life had been doomed through an aggressive case of leukemia will shortly meet the American whose bone marrow was a perfect match...granting him the Gift of Life.

Three men linked to each other through the Gift of Life donor program have met Australian program organiser Shula Endrey-Walder in New York.

Paediatrician Les Markman is dying...maybe you are the one who can save his life