gift of life Archives – J-Wire

A gift for the Gift of Life

Community newsdesk — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 03:44:43 +0000

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.

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A miraculous match

J-Wire News Service — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:08:36 +0000

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

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A fair go at Moriah

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:52:21 +0000

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.

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Call to Australian rabbis to seek community help

J-Wire Staff — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 03:06:11 +0000

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.

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The Gift of Life – the Fight for Life

J-Wire Staff — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:02:35 +0000

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.

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Gift of Life runs City to Surf

J-Wire Staff — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:12:45 +0000

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

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The Gift of Life

J-Wire Staff — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:38:01 +0000

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.

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The Gift of Life

Henry Benjamin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:10:17 +0000

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.

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Gift of Life at work

J-Wire Staff — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:10:37 +0000

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

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Sydney’s turn to try to save a life

Henry Benjamin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:14:21 +0000

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

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