You or someone you know could help give those like Amilah a second chance at life.
Nine-year-old Amilah from Sussex has recently been diagnosed aplastic anaemia, a rare blood disorder. While Amilah, which means ‘hope’ in Arabic, is currently doing well doctors have recommended she has a stem cell transplant.
The transplant is Amilah’s best chance of survival and route back to her hobbies horse riding and karate. But there is, currently, no matching stem cell donor for her to have treatment.
Amilah has Pakistani heritage; people from a minority ethnic background are less likely to find a matching donor for a stem cell transplant because they are more likely to have a unique tissue type – currently just 16% of donors on the aligned UK registry are from a minority ethnic background.
Stem cell donation is giving a gift of life.
Mobeen
Amilah means hope. Hope not just for herself but for all those who need a hero right now and for all those who will need one in the future. Most heroes are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. Signing up to the Anthony Nolan register is a chance to change a life and gift someone hope for the future.
#AmilahMeansHope
Between 16 and 30? Help save the life of someone like Amilah by joining the register today.
Over 30? Find out how you could still help save lives.
Make a donation
A gift of £5 a month helps build a stem cell register that gives everyone the best chance of survival.
A gift of £10 a month helps lifesaving transplants to happen – giving as many people like Amilah as possible a second chance of life.
A gift of £15 a month could help pay for our umbilical cord collection programme – making little lifesavers of babies only minutes old!
£15 goes a long way to helping our scientists conduct ground-breaking research that will save lives over the next 50 years.
£40 could sign up a new lifesaving stem cell donor who could go on to save a life like Amilah.
£90 could pay for three hours of invaluable support from a post-transplant nurse for patients and families.