The Sunflower Fund is a blood donor recruitment centre and registry. It fights blood diseases like leukaemia through the recruitment of stem cell donors and maintaining a registry of potential donors committed to helping anyone in need of a life-saving stem cell transplant. South Africa, and Africa generally, has a very low number of registered... Continue Reading →
Atacama Crossing 2015 – Stage Five
9 October 2015 Greetings from Camp 6 at the end of stage 5 The Long March is done and dusted – 75km in 12hours. It was a long day in a very strong wind, mostly blowing straight in our faces. The terrain covered everything the Atacama has to offer – water/swamp within the first 5km,... Continue Reading →
The Sunflower Fund – giving hope to leukaemia sufferers
Every year thousands of South Africans are diagnosed with leukaemia – a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". For many patients unable to stay in remission with chemotherapy alone, a bone marrow stem cell transplant becomes a life-saving treatment option, but only... Continue Reading →