You could give someone like Sahara another chance to live
13-year-old Sahara from London is a gifted and creative girl with a love for art, writing stories and poems and playing both the guitar and violin. But just days after her 13th birthday she collapsed while out shopping and her mum Satisha says life has been ‘hell on earth’ ever since. Sahara was diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia and had multiple blood transfusions. But doctors now say she needs a stem cell transplant to save her life and the family is desperately searching for matching donor.
Satisha said: “I can only describe the last two months as hell on earth. To say it's been a challenge is putting it mildly and now we're potentially going down a road that we were not prepared for but don't have a choice for either.”
Sahara’s family are appealing for people to sign up to the stem cell register, especially those who share her Caribbean heritage.
How can you help?
Between 16 and 30? Help save the life of someone like Sahara by joining the register today.
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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 Sahara, 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 Sahara's.
£90 could pay for three hours of invaluable support from a post-transplant nurse for patients and families.
Sahara is an artist and at the age of 10 she had one of her pieces in parliament and she also had one of her pieces on a billboard for NSPCC all around London. She's an all-round creative and her dream is to get to the BRITS. She’s so well loved. Everyone says ‘we miss Sahara’ and ‘it’s not the same without her.'
Sahara's mum, Satisha
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Between 16 and 30? Help save the life of someone like Sahara by joining the register today.