{"id":3977,"date":"2015-09-17T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjameswatertown.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3977"},"modified":"2015-09-17T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:11:55","slug":"walk-with-us-abmdr-walk-of-life","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/event\/walk-with-us-abmdr-walk-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk With Us!  ABMDR Walk of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the Fourth\u00a0New England Walk of Life and raise funds for the Armenian Bone Marrow Registry on September 26th. \u00a0Check in and registration begins at 10 AM. Walk starts at 11 AM.\u00a0Starts from ACEC- 47 Nichols Ave and ends at the Town Hall with the Fair in the Square Festival.<\/p>\n<h3>WE ALSO ENCOURAGE ALL OUR PARISHIONERS TO JOIN THE ARMENIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY\u2019S DATABASE.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gifttool.com\/athon\/OurTeamPage?ID=1431&amp;AID=3061&amp;TID=21109\" target=\"_blank\">JOIN THE ST. JAMES TEAM!<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmdr.am\/2014-walk-of-life-ne-information\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIND WALK INFORMATION HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>THE CAUSE<\/h3>\n<p>Every year thousands of people die of Leukemia.\u00a0 In US alone every 4 minutes someone is diagnosed with Leukemia, and every 10 minutes someone dies of Leukemia.\u00a0 These are our children, parents, siblings, family, cousins, grandchildren, grandparents and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the unique genetic make-up of Armenians, it is nearly impossible to find suitable matches for ethnic Armenian patients within the existing international registries.\u00a0 As a result, thousands of Armenian lives have been lost to leukemia and other life-threatening blood disorders.<\/p>\n<p>As THE registry that helps facilitate recruiting and identifying matched unrelated bone marrow donors for ethnic Armenians, ABMDR is crucial in saving these lives.<\/p>\n<p>Walk of Life\u2019s goal is to bring our community members together to fight against leukemia and life-threatening blood disorders.\u00a0It helps ABMDR to save lives by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raising public awareness of leukemia<\/li>\n<li>Recruiting donors to add to its internationally recognized Registry<\/li>\n<li>Raising funds to tissue type these donors, to educate the public, and to serve patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><em>(SOURCE: WWW.ABMDR.AM)<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join us for the Fourth\u00a0New England Walk of Life and raise funds for the Armenian Bone Marrow Registry on September 26th. \u00a0Check in and registration begins at 10 AM. 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