How Do You Host A Bone Marrow Donor Drive?
After reading this article, one will know how to go about setting up a bone marrow donor drive in their own town. Step 1 The first task in setting up a bone marrow donor drive is to find a location willing to host such an event. We were fortunate that our pastor allowed us to use our church hall to host the drive. Once we established the location, I contacted the local National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) coordinator for our area and we set the date and time for the event. When seeking a location, be sure that the space is large enough to set up registration tables, tables for people to fill out paperwork and a set of tables for volunteers to help potential donors collect the buccal (cheek) swabs. Step 2 Get the word out with Flyers! The NMDP will create flyers for your event and will give you 500 copies. These flyers are very important! We created over 1,000 copies ourselves to put around town. Friends had notices sent out to their church mailing lists and our FedEx driver hung up fly
