• Promote public awareness about the need to become a volunteer marrow or cord blood donor through media, audio-visual materials and presentations;
• Teach communities the 6 Steps of Marrow and PBSC Donation;
• Provide specialized outreach and retention programs for minority communities;
• Supply excellent language and cultural assistance to Donor Centers in need to contact preliminary matched donors;
• Provide consistent case management and assist marrow / cord blood donors on the donation process;
• Work side by side with donor and patient to facilitate their meeting;

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• Financial aid, information and emotional support to patients afflicted with blood related cancers;
• Referrals to patients searching for medical professionals and/or treatment centers, transplantation and/or second opinion;
• Assistance to patients and families looking for a compatible bone marrow/stem cell match;
• Help to patient and family with Activities of daily living (ADLs);
  

• Over 260 patients and their families from all over the world have received emotional, logistical and financial support from Icla da Silva Foundation.
• We became one of the largest recruitment centers for the National Marrow Donor Program, registering over 72,000 (13,000 in 2007) potential bone marrow donors since 1992.
• Facilitated over 150 bone marrow transplants.
• The Icla da Silva Foundation has helped to improve the overall retention rates of donors by utilizing cultural assessments, thereby making more donors available for patients.