Give Patients with Blood Cancer a Second Chance!

At WMDA, our vision is clear: a world where every patient has access to life-saving cellular therapies, and where every donor’s rights, safety, and wellbeing are fully protected. Achieving this vision requires global collaboration and your support makes it possible.

Through your generous contributions via GlobalGiving, you are directly powering a worldwide network of experts, volunteers, and innovators. Last week, our global community came together in Madrid to strengthen our shared commitment and accelerate progress towards faster, safer, and more equitable transplants.

The following key initiatives are making a real impact and continue to grow thanks to your support:

1. Global Search & Match Service

Your support sustains and advances WMDA’s global database of voluntary stem cell donors and cord blood units. This critical platform allows transplant centers worldwide to identify the best possible match for patients, within seconds.

By investing in cutting-edge science and technology, you help ensure that:

• Searches are faster and more precise
• Patients have a higher chance of finding a suitable donor

2. Match-Connect: Transforming Global Coordination

Finding a donor is only the first step. Coordinating across borders has historically been slow and complex.

Thanks to your funding, Match-Connect is:

• Replacing outdated paperwork with streamlined digital systems
• Standardising international processes
• Dramatically reducing the time from donor selection to transplant

This innovation is revolutionising how the global transplant community works together.

3. Donor Recruitment & Retention

A strong and diverse donor pool is essential. Your contributions help:

• Share global best practices between countries at different stages of development
• Support recruitment strategies tailored to local communities
• Encourage donors to remain committed and more likely to say "Yes" when selected

This ensures more patients can find a suitable donor that says Yes when it really matters!

4. Donor Care & Protection

Donors are at the heart of everything we do. Your support enables:

• Long-term follow-up (up to 10 years) to monitor donor health
• Development of international donor safety guidelines
• Protection of both physical and mental wellbeing

Without healthy, supported donors, there are no second chances for patients. Your funding safeguards this vital foundation.

5. Regional Initiatives: Addressing Local Needs

Global solutions must reflect local realities. Your donations help us:

• Address cultural, economic, and linguistic barriers
• Facilitate region-specific collaboration and knowledge sharing

At our recent international meeting, a dedicated focus on Latin America brought regional leaders together to discuss challenges and opportunities in their own language, strengthening impact where it is needed most.

6. Cord Blood: Expanding Treatment Possibilities

Cord blood is a powerful and rapidly accessible source of stem cells.

With your support, we:

• Advance its use in both transplants and emerging therapies
• Enable rapid delivery for patients in urgent need

This life-saving resource continues to open new doors for treatment and recovery.

Your generosity does more than fund projects, it transforms lives!

Because of you:

• Patients find matches faster
• Transplants happen sooner
• Donors are protected and supported
• Global systems become more equitable and efficient

It truly takes a world to make this happen and you are an essential part of it.

On behalf of the global WMDA community, the patients we serve, and the donors we protect:
Thank you for your continued trust, commitment, and support.