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THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!

Wine awakens joy, courage and truthfulness in people. It is not for nothing that
since the days of Pliny, people say „In Vino Veritas!“ In the past, recruiters orga-
nized dances, where they used wine to encourage cheerful young men to enroll
in military service for 12 years. And now imagine that a young winemaker finds
out that his son is suffering from a disease for which a bone marrow transplant
is the only treatment that could save him. He searches for donors in the family,
then among friends and among colleagues in the field of wines. Finding a suita-
ble donor is extremely difficult. Although there is an international database, one
in four patients who need a bone marrow donor to be healed will never find one.

WINE HELPS!

The winemaker‘s name is Pavel Lacina and One of the most popular Czech singers, Tomáš Klus,
his son is little Paul. played for little Pavel at the benefit concert. It has
Every year, thousands of people around the brought a several more names to the donor registry!
world, including young children, get serious
illnesses that can be treated with bone marrow althy donor offers the chance for a complete
transplants. Procedures such as chemothera- recovery and return to a fully-fledged life. Un-
py often offer improvement but it usually is- fortunately, their number is still insufficient.
n’t a permanent cure. In these cases, only the Anyone who signs up for a donor registry can
transplant of hematopoietic cells from a he- give someone hope for recovery.
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