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79 New Donors for Janet Liang at GMU and CTPC! Team Janet East Coast February Total 347!
28 Feb 2012 | No Comments | posted by cheekswab | in Blog
With bone marrow drives at ODPC (Sunday), GMU (Thursday), and Chesterbrook Taiwanese Presbyterian Church (CTPC) on Friday and Sunday, this past week was pretty busy. But with the help of the GMU Vietnamese Student Association, the staff and members of CTPC and friends who volunteered at each of the drives, 79 new donors were registered this week in honor of Janet Liang. By adding CTPC to the Team Janet East Coast drives from UMCP, UMBC, GWU, EVMS and GMU, that brings the total new East Coast registrants for Janet Liang to 347 people!
George Mason University Marrow Drive, Thursday, 2/23
Swabbing at George Mason University
I want to give a special shout out to Vinh Phan, a GMU student who really went above and beyond the call of duty to make the GMU drive a success. We had originally planned to host a drive at GMU as part of the multi-school Team Janet East Coast initiative on Valentines Day (which registered donors from UMCP, UMBC, GWU and EVMS) but unfortunately Read more..
Drives this week for Janet Liang – George Mason University 2/23 and Chesterbrook Taiwanese Presbyterian Church 2/24 + 2/26
20 Feb 2012 | No Comments | posted by cheekswab | in Blog
Drives this week for Janet Liang include:
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Thursday, 7pm-10pm, Johnson Center Meeting Room E (Third Floor)
4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA, 22030
GMU Patriots! While the drive on Valentines Day for Janet Liang fell through due to some last minute issues, I will be on campus at George Mason University this Thursday to register donors at a drive coordinated by the GMU Vietnamese Students Association. Please come out to the Johnson Center for a short presentation and swabbing drive! I'll be available to answer any questions you have about the process, as will a friend of mine who recently donated marrow in December.
RSVP to the Facebook event here! http://www.facebook.com/events/257714900970660/
For questions and clarifications regarding what bone marrow registration is, what the registration process is like and if donating marrow hurts, please click through the rest of the content on cheekswab.org. If your question isn't answered anywhere here, please contact me
CHESTERBROOK TAIWANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Friday (10pm) and Sunday (1pm)
2036 Westmoreland Street, Falls Church, VA, 22033
I'll also be running another drive at Chesterbrook Taiwanese Presbyterian Church on Friday evening and Sunday afternoon, both in honor of Janet Liang. To any CTPC members, please look over the material on this site and let me know if you have any questions!
For more information on the CTPC drive, view their announcement here.
ODPC Drive Recap: 254 Registered Donors!
20 Feb 2012 | No Comments | posted by cheekswab | in Blog
ODPC Drive Volunteers
The bone marrow drive at Open Door Presbyterian Church on Sunday was an amazing display of generosity by not only the ODPC congregation but the community at large. In addition to the incredible response of members of ODPC, there were a number of visitors and volunteers at the drive who had heard of Andrew's cause via social media or the Internet and decided to come out to the drive to help or join the registry.
Joining Andrew's Army at ODPC
The amazing part about this drive was how invested ODPC was in the drive's promotion and success. Often times at churches marrow drives can become something of an afterthought or minor bullet on the itinerary. But ODPC, with its over 700 weekly attendees, went above and beyond the call of duty (in a very short 3 week period) to do all that they could to run a successful drive.
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