The first inter-continental stem cell donor recruitment drive - Matches on the Map - kicked off in September 2023. We spent four years building our full-time home-on-wheels, converted Betsy to run on used cooking oil (to save on fuel costs) and finally hit the road from our home town in South Africa.
We aim to overland through 64 countries in the next ten years, across 3 continents, from South Africa to Vietnam. The aim of the project is to sign up and encourage as many people in as many places as possible - to become potential stem cell donors. Our project was inspired by our own experience with a stem cell transplant that saved my life in 2018. We hope to pay it forward by finding others in need their MATCH and second chance.
Registering as a donor is free, quick and easy. If matched, the donation process is non-invasive and can be compared to a blood donation.
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