Hillel and the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry recently celebrated the extraordinary success of their partnership by introducing the very first donor recruited on a campus to the man whose life she saved.

The donor, Amy Fishman, joined the registry when she came upon a recruitment drive coordinated by the Hillel at George Washington University in the fall of 2004. Just two months later, Amy became very first student recruited through the Hillel-Gift of Life partnership to match a patient who needed a transplant. Without hesitation, she donated her blood stem cells to a 60-year-old man with leukemia. One year later, Fishman met the recipient, Martin Feldman, at lunch hosted by Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.

The program, now in is fourth semester, has resulted in the addition of over 10,000 young, healthy volunteers to Gift of Life’s Registry and has already saved the lives of over two dozen patients whose donors were recruited on campuses throughout North America.

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