Professional volunteers can come from various fields to offer their help depending on the needs of Choose Life and according to their background:
Health professionals such as psychologists, occupational therapists
Communication professionals such as graphic designers, translators, bloggers etc
Lawyers and financial advisors
Volunteer work from home
Spread the word about our causes
Work in our offices
Help in the communication with the supporters of our programs
Organise events
Distribute informative material
Participate in the activities of the association
• Donor registers with global database using simple (cutip) DNA test•
• Donor is notified if a match is found
Match depends on bone marrow tissue type (primarily Human Leukocyte Antigen-HLA)
Odds of match increase if donor and patient are from same race, country or family
• Donor takes additional test and info sessions
• Decision on type of donation is made
PBSC: Peripheral blood stem cell donation (5 self-administered injections for 5 days, extraction of blood-forming cells from the bloodstream over 3 hours) (80% of the times)
or Bone marrow donation (anesthesia, bone marrow extraction) (20% of the times)
• (Overall time of donor needed: 20-30 hours over 4-6 weeks)
Help Choose Life either by contributing directly to its mission by supporting one of the parent initiatives or by providing in kind.
Create CSR days for your employees, to raise awareness about how easy it is to become a bone marrow donor. Encourage them to become volunteer donors and support Choose Life by paying the amount for the cutip to be analyzed and for the person to be officially registered in the World Bone Marrow bank.
