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Launching Hope: Empowering Lives Affected by Blood Cancer
Bringing Hope, Healing, and Support: Together Against Blood Cancer in Southeast Texas and around the world!
Bringing Hope, Healing, and Support: Together Against Blood Cancer in Southeast Texas and around the world!
SETX Leukemia Organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the United States; incorporated in Southeast Texas. in November of 2023
Missions
1. To support and empower local Southeast Texas families facing the daunting diagnosis of blood cancer. Through compassionate outreach and education, we aim to cultivate a community where every individual and family facing blood cancer feel embraced and supported. Together, we endeavor to make a tangible difference in the lives of families battling blood cancer, offering hope, strength, and a pathway to healing.
2. Strive to expand the pool of potential lifesavers on the bone marrow registry through our partnership with DKMS. By bolstering awareness and accessibility to bone marrow donation, we seek to enhance the chances of finding life-saving matches for those in need, not only in Southeast Texas, but around the world.
Miley and Kayla
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In November of 2000, Gilbert Louis Dejohn, the best friend of co-founder Eric West, and friend to countless others, lost his battle with leukemia at the young age of 15. Gilbert's life, legacy, and memory stayed alive with Eric and would one day once again change the lives of many people. His memory lives on through us.
Our founders, Kayla and Eric, while attending a Goo Goo Dolls concert in Beaumont, TX in 2016, noticed a big red "DKMS" booth and saw that they were on a mission to battle blood cancer. They were asking for people to provide DNA samples (by simply swabbing their cheeks) to grow the registry of potential bone marrow donors for blood cancer patients in need of a donor. With the memory of Gilbert always on their minds, Kayla and Eric both immediatetly seized the opportunity to join the registry.
Fast forward to 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic shutdown, Kayla received a life changing phone call. She was a potential match for a young girl in Oklahoma. Kayla immediately took the necessary steps to ensure she was an ideal match and proceeded with the donation after a battery of tests. A few months later DKMS called again and informed Kayla that her recipient needed a boost and Kayla once again immediately responded and provided her cells for a second donation.
Fast forward again to 2023. DKMS once again called Kayla. This time to invite her and her family to meet her recipient, Miley, and her family for the first time ever at their annual NYC gala. Lives were changed throughout the entire process, and on that day, Kayla and Eric were determined to do their part to continue doing anything they could to positively impact the lives of anyone facing a blood cancer diagnosis. Thus, SETX Leukemia Organization was born. Please take a moment to watch the video in our success stories to understand how you can profoundly impact the lives of others. All you have to be willing to do is help understand how your small decision can change lives.
This Organization, and the work we do, is dedicated to the memory of Gilbert Dejohn, and everyone else who has been affected by blood cancer, or any other type of cancer.
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Yes, SETX Leukemia Organization is a registered 501(c)(3) organization, so your donation is tax deductible.
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