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Every year, approximately 40,000 children and adults are afflicted with fatal diseases such as leukemia and aplastic anemia. We can prevent many of these deaths with a bone marrow transplant.

Aware of that fact, The Icla da Silva Foundation, as an Official Recruitment Group of the National Marrow Donor Program , has been working vigorously to increase the number of volunteer donors in the National Registry.

The communities of Brazilians, Hispanics, African-Americans, and others known as minorities in the United States have been the main targets of our work due to the fact that the probability of finding a donor for a patient in the same ethnic group is 1 to 20,000.

The total number of donors registered by ethnic group, is shown on the graph offered to us by the NMDP. As of December 31, 1999, 3,849,149 volunteer potential donors are registered with the National Marrow Donor Program.

Racial Distribution of NMDP Donors

From that graph, we can conclude the urgent need for raising the number of minority donors. Then we can offer all those children and adults who are in need of a Bone Marrow Transplant a chance for a healthy and happy life.

The Icla da Silva Foundation is in dire need of funding to continue its work. Your contribution, as well as your company, will give us the support needed to continue our work in helping to save the lives of those who are fighting cancer. We need your humanitarian dedication.

The Icla da Silva Foundation is a non-profit organization under the IRS code 501(c)3 that educates people about the bone marrow program and register people from many differents ethnic groups through out the United States.

We also spend most of our time helping the patients and their families in many way, including financial support whenever it is possible.

We hope you will join us by making a contribution, so we may continue our greatily eforts. We thank you and would like to let you know that all our resources are available to you.