Become a bone marrow donor at Melloblocco

How? The Lombardy ADMO section, in collaboration with the San Raffaele hospital, will provide fifty kits to tissue type your saliva; this is simple, innovative and effective method. A medical staff and volunteers will be at hand on Saturday 4 May to provide all the information you need and then guide you through the simple test, which consists in leaving a sample of saliva. All that's needed is some spit!

Why? We could talk about this for hours... but basically because, now more than ever, becoming potential bone marrow donors is important, beautiful, simple and safe. After you tissue has been typed, you become part of a global register (which is now composed of about twenty million people). All those waiting for a transplant make use of this register and you might be their only hope for a cure and therefore survival!

Being a potential bone marrow donors enhances the life quality of others, of those who lay their trust and hopes in you, but it also enhances your own life. Living with the daily awareness that we are someone's hope... makes us live better, too...

Many people have done (literally!) the impossible to make this Melloblocco tissue typing possible, and this is a unique occasion. Dedicate an hour on Saturday 4 May and do a beautiful act of civil duty. This year only fifty of you can do this and it'll be a great present for them, for all those hoping in a bone marrow transplant, for the cause and for the climbing world!

See you in Val di Mello, you'll easily find our two stands ADMO and CLIMB FOR LIFE. Saturday, May 4th! This time... it's important!

Pietro Dal Pra and Giovanni Spitale

PS: if you want to find out more check outwww.climbforlife.it and www.admo.it

MELLOBLOCCO 2013
05/05/2013 - Melloblocco 2013: day ten, goodbye to the Valley
04/05/2013 - Melloblocco 2013: day nine, beauty
04/05/2013 - Melloblocco, 2013, day eight: climbing without limits
03/05/3013 - Melloblocco 2013, day seven: sun and a warm welcome
02/05/2013 - Become a bone marrow donor at Melloblocco
01/05/2013 - Melloblocco 2013: day six, 1st of May, sun, clouds and climbing
30/04/2013 - Melloblocco 2013, today the special evening dedicated to Valle di Mello
29/04/2013 - Melloblocco 2013: day four, a bit of everything
28/04/2013 - Melloblocco 2013 – day three: bouldering calm
28/04/2013 - Melloblocco 2013, Anna Borella shares her personal perspective
27/04/2013 - Melloblocco 2013: sparks of imagination during day 1
27/04/2013 - Melloblocco 2013 - day one: Chinese lanterns fill the sky
24/04/2013 - Melloblocco, 10 years of history, climbing and culture in Val di Mello – Val Masino
23/04/2013 - Melloblocco Backstage, an exhibition documenting the birth of the boulder problems
22/04/2013 - Melloblocco 2013, more than just bouldering with the Lombardy Mountain Guides
12/04/2013 - Melloblocco Special 2013: 10 years for 10 free climbing days in Val di Mello