“David Mojica, 14, spent his lunch hour...asking his fellow students if they could save his life”. In the year prior, he had been diagnosed with aplastic anemia and was in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant. Unfortunately though, due to his Latino ethnicity, his chances of finding a donor and surviving the life-threatening disease are lower. He then went around his school cafeteria urging for his fellow students to register as donors and “in exchange, he offered a chocolate-chip cookie or a glazed donut”. His story was picked up and featured in The Dallas Morning News last month and has found up to 33 people who were willing to register and had matched him.
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