WeAreHapa.com - The Social Support Network for Multi-Cultural Individuals

Every year, over 30,000 people are diagnosed in the US with life threatening blood diseases like leukemia. For many patients, a bone marrow transplant is their only chance at survival. Only 30% of patients find matching donors within their families. The remaining 70% must search for an unrelated donor.

Currently, minorities make up only 30% of the registry and only 3% are mixed race. Because not all mixes are the same combination, the actual odds of a mixed race patient finding a match is lower than 3% because of the variety of possible mixes in the registry.

Race holds a critical role in finding a marrow match. DNA must be similar between the donor and the recipient in order for a match to occur. For mixed patients, their monoracial parents and relatives will not match them and siblings only hold a 1 in 4 chance. Not only is race a factor, but genetic makeup of which antigens are passed down from each parent makes finding a match that much harder. Finding a marrow match has been compared at times as having the odds of “finding a needle in a haystack” or “winning the lottery.” 

Because it is THAT difficult, all healthy mixed people 18-60 yrs old NEED to be registered. It could be you one day or someone you love… Don’t wait until that happens to actually do something, the registry needs our demographic NOW….there are people worldwide dying TODAY… 

We are the largest growing minority, but have the smallest registered donor percentage. It is time we step up and do something to help each other. 

Mixed Marrow is dedicated to finding bone marrow and blood cell donors to patients of multiethnic descent. Our outreach concentrates on this minority due to the desperate need for registered donors as well as the lack of public knowledge regarding this topic.

We are dedicated to educating the multiethnic community through multimedia tools such as internet, video, and photography and hosting drives to register donors.

Mixed Marrow recruits donors for Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M), a recruitment center for the Be The Match Registry. We are operated by the National Marrow Donor Program.

How you can help:

If you would like to register today to be a donor and are in the US, click here:
http://join.bethematch.org/mixedmarrow

If you are outside of the US, or would like more information, contact us at admin@mixedmarrow.org
or to be added to our mailing list send us a message with "ADD" in the subject line.

Our Supporters:

A3M (Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches): 
http://www.asianmarrow.org/

Brown Baby
http://www.brownbaby.org/

HapaSC (Hapa Club at USC):
http://www.hapasc.org/

Japanese American National Museum
http://www.janm.org/

Loving Day
http://www.lovingday.org/

MASC (Multiracial Americans of Southern California):
http://www.mascsite.org/

Mixed Kids - Kip Fulbeck:
http://www.mixedkids.com/

NMDP (National Marrow Donor Program):
http://www.marrow.org/

We Are Hapa:
http://www.wearehapa.com/

Besides registering bone marrow donors, Mixed Marrow also sets to educated about the benefits of cord blood donation. More info can be found here:
http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Donate_Cord_Blood_Share_Life/index.html