HARLEM BONE MARROW DRIVE-2/25/10

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Shana Melius
Preserve Our Legacy, Inc
P: 877.778.3623 ext 702
F: 718.425.8983
shana.mac@preserveourlegacy.org

PRESERVE OUR LEGACY TO PARTNER WITH DKMS AMERICAS
TO HOST BONE MARROW DONOR DRIVE
FOR SEUN ADEBIYI IN HARLEM
FEBRUARY 25, 2010

New York, N.Y.-(February 2, 2010)- It was announced today that Preserve Our Legacy, Inc. will partner with DKMS Americas to host donor drives for Seun Adebiyi in Harlem, NY at the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building in the Art Gallery on the second floor located at 125th and Adam Clayton Blvd in New York from 4:00 pm-9:00pm.

Seun Adebiyi
Seun is Nigerian and graduated from Yale Law School in June 2009. Seun is also an aspiring Olympian. A few weeks after graduation, he was diagnosed with leukemia and to help to cure this disease he needed a bone marrow transplant. No one in his family was a matched, therefore, he needs to find an unrelated donor. Due to the lack of minorities in the National Marrow Registry, there is presently no available donor. Now we are trying to find him a donor and we need your help. To read Seun’s blog log on to: http://nigeria2014.wordpress.com.

DKMS Americas
DKMS Americas is an accredited (by the Be The Match Registry) national bone marrow donor center. DKMS works to expand bone marrow donor registries by recruiting bone marrow donors from every race and ethnicity, in order to provide leukemia and other blood cancer patients in need of a bone marrow transplant with the best available donor match. DKMS also coordinates the transport of bone marrow and blood stem cells from Germany to the U.S. for patients here in need of bone marrow transplants. Through our efforts, DKMS Americas has registered over 125,000 donors, and more than 155 DKMS (Americas) donors have gone on to donate their bone marrow. There is still more work to do as only 4 out of 10 people will receive a life-saving transplant. Therefore, we need your help. For more information about DKMS, log on to www.dkmsamericas.org.

Preserve Our Legacy, Inc. (P.O.L.)
In 2006, DKMS informed Greg Marius, EBC founder and former EBC publicist Shana Melius about then 2-year old Jaden Hilton needed to find a donor. Through various efforts they both tried to register donors. Due to the lack of registrants, Jaden lost his battle because he could not find an unrelated donor on January 29, 2007. On January 30, 2007, Preserve Our Legacy was formed. Therefore, the birth of “The Jaden Hilton Initiative”, which is to increase awareness about the lack of minorities in the National Registry and to create awareness about health disparities as well as stem cell treatment options offered through bone marrow and umbilical cord blood donation.

Preserve Our Legacy, Inc. will continue to partner with various organizations to assist in creating awareness about the need of minority donors as well as assisting in finding a donor match for those in need. For more information, media or to request interviews contact us at 1.877.778.3623, Shana Melius, ext 702. For DKMS contact Alina Suprunova at 212.209.6703.