A couple from Feldafing is launching a fundraising campaign for leukemia patients. Also because in his environment, a man of blood cancer and died.
Starnberg – The work colleague who died last year of blood cancer. The son of another colleague, who is ill with 15 for the second Time. “The topic of leukemia, for me, is always present,” says Mario Hoppe. Therefore, he starts with his wife Miriam, the main organizer of the event, as he says, the fundraising campaign “give the gift of life Starnberg helps”.
The couple from Feldafing looking for a Savior, and on Saturday, 12. January in front of the Gasthaus zur Sonne the butcher’s Scholler in Starnberg. From 10 to 14 o’clock there will be coffee, cakes, mulled wine, sausages and kralbet giri? a raffle. For the entertainment of young visitors to the magician George Cooper occurs around 11 PM.
As the face for the fundraiser have chosen the Hoppes those son of a work colleague. Mario Hoppe is working for an international consumer network and therefore knows Ben Heigl from Greiz in Thuringia. On the poster for the action of the 15 smiling-Year-old looks casual with a pair of sunglasses and slung over his shoulder camera. However, Ben needs, like many others, urgently need a suitable stem cell donation. to find
Genetic twins is easier, if more people as donors. “For the registration and the costs of the Laboratory for the typing of 35 euros”, says Mario Hoppe. “That’s why we also need monetary donations.” The action will contribute to that even more samples can be analyzed. The donor data are collected centrally in the bone marrow and stem cell registers.
The savings Bank was launched in November of last year, a typing action. Maik Hammi, working in the telephone service of the Bank in Starnberg, is already registered for several decades. In 2013, his donation of a woman, saved a life in France. In his case, the surgery lasted for two and a half hours. “The withdrawal is nothing more than a slightly more elaborate blood,” says Hammi. “In March 2014, I got a call that my recipient’s worse.” He then donated a second Time. “And I would of course do so at any time.”
