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Virtual Wine Tasting for Icla da SilvaIclaCares and You! March 2022

When Teanna’s brother was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, she became his caregiver while working and going to graduate school. Listen to her share the family’s experience during her brothers’ recovery.

IclaCares and You! February 2020

Listen to a mom share the story of her 11-year-old daughter’s search for a matching bone marrow donor.

2021 Hope Gala

Watch the Icla da Silva Foundations 2021 Hope Gala. Witness five emotional patient journeys and learn about the impact the foundation has made in their lives.

Alfredo’s Story

Alfredo has been ill for 8 years. His family has been searching for a matching stem cell donor for more than 5 years. Could you be a potential match for Alfredo? Please include yourself on the national registry – you may save a life!

JOIN FOR ALFREDO

This is Jakobe
Jakobe was diagnosed with T-cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia. It’s an aggressive cancer and it is progressing very quickly. His family is searching for a blood stem cell donor in order to survive.

Currently, there are no matching donors for him on the Be The Match registry.

Please include yourself as a potential donor by clicking here – https://join.bethematch.org/IclaFB
LATiNAS and CUNY TV report on the Icla da Silva Foundation

Thank you LATiNAS for this insightful piece (4:24 – 11:29) about the challenges that ethnically diverse patients face when searching for a cure to blood cancers and sickle cell.

These diseases can be cured with a genetically matched stem cell or bone marrow transplant.  But there aren’t enough ethnically diverse donors on the registry.
Include yourself. Text CUNYTV to 61474. Help spread the word about saving more lives.
Tinabeth Pina reporting
Robin Roberts Plea to Save Juwan

African Americans like Juwan are under-represented on the National Bone Marrow registry. This means that every patient with a blood cancer like leukemia or lymphoma, who is also Black, only has a 23% chance of finding a matching stem cell donor.

The only way that this can be corrected, is by getting more people, across all ethnic diversities, to include themselves on the registry.

Please include yourself. Ask your friends and family to add themselves.

The only way we can save more lives is by doing it together.

Together we will save more lives.

join the registry

Read more about Juwan here.

 

Help Us Save Nurse Maria

Jennifer Maria has been caring for others for 13 years. She is an emergency room nurse at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She is also the mother of 3 beautiful children.

Now Nurse Maria needs some care of her own. She is battling Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) and is searching for a matching bone marrow donor.

Please join the registry on behalf of Nurse Maria.

Save nurse maria

You may be her match! You may save her life!!

Cancer Patient Meets Her Guardian Angel

Stephanie is from New Jersey. She battled cancer and almost didn’t make it. She survived thanks to the selfless donation of bone marrow from a stranger in Arizona.

Watch Stephanie meet her matching donor Crystal at the Icla da Silva Hope Gala in NYC on October 16, 2019.