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March 5th, 2009
Jasmina Anema is a 6-year-old New York City girl who is suffering from a rare and particularly deadly form of leukemia. Doctors fear Little Jasmina Anema could die unless she receives a bone-marrow transplant soon. Her family hopes a donor drive will find a match, the New York Daily News reports. Singers Kelly Rowland and Rihanna and NBA star Paul Pierce are spreading the word about a bone marrow drive to be held this Saturday in hopes of finding a match for Jasmina. The best bets for donors are usually family members and, in the case of Jasmina, a donor who is African-American like her. But Jasmina was adopted, and her mother is white. “I need thousands of people to come,” Theodora Anema, Jasmina’s mother, told the newspaper.
