Can you help us keep Synnøve alive?

Synnøve Stautland Koløen is 33 years old, a teacher and the mother of two. She suffers from acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML). Chemotherapy finished in spring, and she spent four months with her family this summer. She only got to walk her 6-year-old daughter to school the first week of term. Then the relapse came.

It’s not enough to hope anymore. Now she needs a bone marrow donation to survive.

It’s urgent.

As a blood donor and bone marrow donor you can save lives. Please help secure Synnøve a future, and become a donor.

This is what you can do:

Sign up as blood donor on the website of your country or go to your local hospital. Since there are millions of different varieties of human body tissue and there must be a match between the donor’s and the recipient’s tissue, you are not likely to be singled out. However, your blood donation and bone marrow donation can help Synnøve and others survive.

Bone marrow donation is not dangerous, it is easy, and it saves lives.

Read more about Synnøve at: http://www.avil.wordpress.com (in Norwegian)

From family and friends

Worldwide blood websites:

Australian Red Cross Blood Service (Australia) at http://svc058.bne241p.server-web.com/

Österreichischen Blutspendedienste (Austria) at http://www.roteskreuz.at/8.html

Crwsp.ibelgique.com (Belgium) at http://crwsp.ibelgique.com/

Belgian Red Cross Blood Service (Belgium – French part) at http://www.transfusion.be/

Héma-Québec (Canada) at http://www.hema-quebec.qc.ca/francais/index.htm

Canadian Blood Services (Canada) at http://www.blood.ca/celebrate

Hermandad de Donantes de Sangre de León (Spain) at http://pagina.de/donantesdeleon

Finlands Röda Kors (Finland) at http://www.redcross.fi/

Don du sang – La Poste – France Télécom (France) at http://www.dondusang-laposte-francetelecom.asso.fr/

Le Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine (INTS) (France) at http://www.ints.fr/

Etablissement Français du Sang (France) at http://www.dondusang.net/

BLOG des donneurs de sang sans frontières (France) at http://donneurs-de-sang-sans-frontieres.over-blog.com/

Association pour le Don de Sang Bénévole d’Entzheim (ADSBE) (France) at http://www.adsb-entzheim.asso.fr/

Amicale pour le don du sang bénévole à Péronnas (France) http://don.de.sang.peronnas.free.fr/

Deutches Rotes Kreuz (Germany) at http://www.drk-blutspende.de/

Irish Blood Transfusion Service (Ireland) at http://www.ibts.ie/

Norges Røde Kors (Norway) at http://www.rodekors.no/

Blodbanken-Oslo (Norway) at http://www.blodbanken-oslo.no/

New Zealand Blood Service (New Zealand) at http://www.nzblood.co.nz/

Instituto Português do Sangue (Portugal) at http://www.ipsangue.org/

Ge blod nu (Sweden) at http://www.geblod.nu/main.aspx?PageId=1

Svensk Förening för Transfusionsmedicin (Sweden) at http://www3.svls.se/sektioner/tr/

National Blood Service (England & North Wales) at http://www.blood.co.uk/

Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (Scotland) at http://www.scotblood.co.uk/

The Welsh Blood Service (Wales) at http://www.welsh-blood.org.uk/english/

American Association of Blood Banks – AABB (United States of America) at http://www.aabb.org/content

San Diego Blood Bank (United States of America) at http://www.sandiegobloodbank.org/

America’s Blood Centers (United States of America) at http://www.americasblood.org/go.cfm

Venezuela Dona Sangre (Venezuela) at http://www.venezueladonasangre.org.ve/

South African National Blood Service (South Africa) at http://www.sanbs.org.za/

Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (China) at http://www5.ha.org.hk/rcbts/

Singapore Red Cross Blood Donor Recruitment Programme (Singapore) at http://www.redcross.org.sg/serv_bdrp.htm

Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization (Iran) at http://www.ibto.ir/HomePage.aspx?TabID=0&Site=DouranPortal&Lang=fa-IR

Centro Nacional de la Transfusión Sanguína (Mexico) at http://cnts.salud.gob.mx/inicio.php

The Saudi Western Region Transfusion Medicine Group at http://www.wrtmg.org/

The Perfect Gift Foundation at http://theperfectgiftfoundation.blogspot.com/

Blood Donors’ Association Nepal at http://www.bloodmembers.com/