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The Director of the Ana Rukavina Foundation, Mrs. Marija Rukavina, accepted a donation of 50,000 kuna from the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) !
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As the race for Pantovčak nears the end, Ivo Josipović, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate, found the time to visit the new premises of the Ana Rukavina Foundation and even donate 100,000 kuna, and thus he joined the pre-Christmas humanitarian action that the Foundation held for the fourth year in a row in honor of the late Vjesnik journalist Ana Rukavina.
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Presidential candidate Nadan Vidošević donates 20,100 kn for tissue typing blood samples!
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The Ana Rukavina Foundation will mark the passing of another year without Ana, but her spirit will live on through everyone that comes to Ban Jelačić Square on December 15 at 8 PM to enjoy the humanitarian concert that will feature: Marija and Ivana Husar, Antonija Šola, Jacques Houdek, Bojan Jambrošić, Davorin Bogović, Kaliopi, Žanamari, Jelena Radan, Meritas, Franka Batelić, Ivana Kindl, Luka Nižetić, Connect, Bojana Gregorić Vejzović, Ana Vilenica, Sandra Bagarić, Martina Tomčić, Goran Navojec...
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The Ana Rukavina Foundation is inviting you to come to the Flower Square on Saturday, December 12th between 11 AM and 1 PM. The occasion is the sale of the Foundation’s promotional materials and the announcement regarding the traditional humanitarian concert “Želim život” (I want life).
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Šutej Family Request: In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Ana Rukavina Foundation
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Our dearest and most sincere condolences go out to the family of maestro Šutej. We wish them peace in these difficult times, with the hope that they will find comfort in the wonderful thoughts and memories of their dear Điđi.
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The students at the School for Road Transport in Zagreb organized a humanitarian-educational action at their school!
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We would like to offer our sincerest condolences to the Novak family as we learn the deeply shocking news about Silvana!
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As of Monday, November 30th, the Ana Rukavina Foundation will be located at a new address - Kneza Mislava 10/I - in the building in the courtyard.
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Neki Novi Klinci (Some New Kids) – a band that plays tribute to Đorđe Balašević by performing the music of the most popular singer-songwriter in this region, will play at the IN BAR near the Sava River, Jarunska 5, on November 19, 2009. The proceeds from the performance will go to benefit the Ana Rukavina Foundation.
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In order to reach the goal of increasing the number of potential bone marrow and stem cell donors, a number of organizers have helped us with our work. This time the organizer of the action is the County Board of the HDZ Women’s Association “Katarina Zrinski” for the county of Karlovac.
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The doctors of the Medical School and the University Clinical Hospital in Mostar have showed that they are not only good doctors, but excellent actors as well. On October 25, 2009, in front of a full house at the city theater Komedija, they put on a performance of Molière’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid”. All of the proceeds from the ticket sales went to the Ana Rukavina Foundation, which was just another confirmation of the nobility and humanity of those in the medical profession.
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For the third year in a row, the organizers of the Top Ten Karate Fest will donate the ticket proceeds to the Ana Rukavina Foundation.
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The 1st ANA RUKAVINA SYMPOSIUM dedicated to the activities connected to the operations of the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors and the Ana Rukavina Cord Blood Bank will be held within the framework of the symposium “5th Transfusion Days” which is being organized by the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy at University Hospital Center Zagreb and the Croatian Society for Hematology and Transfusion Medicine of the Croatian Medical Association!
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At an action in sisak to jin the Registry, the names of 51 new bone marrow donors were added!
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In a short period of time, another stem cell donation from the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow donors has been used for a patient suffering from leukemia.
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On the occasion of World Lymphoma Awareness Day on September 15th, the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the Croatian Leukemia and Lymphoma Association have organized a number of activities on Cvjetni Trg in order to raise public awareness of this difficult, and unfortunately, not so uncommon disease.
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At the action to join the Registry of voluntary bone marrow donors, which was held on August 26th in Split at Prokurative, there were 105 new potential donors of bone marrow and stem cells that gave blood samples to be tissue typed.
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Today in Split, starting at 6 PM, is the action for the Ana Rukavina Foundation “When little hands get together, there is no stopping Split”. It is being organized by the Association of Secondary Schools in Split and the European Youth Parliament of the City of Split.
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In Split, from August 22nd – 27th, a six-day event, “When little hands get together, there is no stopping Split” will take place to support the projects of the Ana Rukavina Foundation.
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In the period between June 15th and July 15th 2009, 700 new blood samples of potential bone marrow and stem cell donors were tissue typed.
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On Saturday from 2 PM to 8 PM at the popular Bundek Lake, a few hundred Zagrebers were having a good time. They were marking the European Week Against Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma, which was organized by the Croatian Leukemia and Lymphoma Association (HULL) and the Ana Rukavina Foundation under the auspices of the City Office for Health, Labour, Social Protection and War Veterans.
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To mark the European Week Against Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma a charity picnic will take place at Bundek Lake.
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The authors of the film “I want life”, which was about the work of the Ana Rukavina Foundation, were awarded the best short film at the British Heart of England International Film Festival in Tamworth.
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More than 450 recreational and professionals competitors participated in the second “Volim Trčanje” (I Love Running) race that was held on June 25th in Zagreb.
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700 new blood samples from potential bone marrow and stem cell donors have been tissue typed.
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In the City Council of Varaždin, the deputy mayor of Varaždin, Zlatko Horvat, presented Marija Rukavina, the director of the Foundation, with an embroidered portrait of her daughter Ana that was made by Verica Mihalić.
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Nemetova Polyclinic has taken part in the humanitarian action for the Ana Rukavina Foundation by donating equipment worth 110,000 kuna which is to be used to store samples in the Ana Rukavina Cord Blood Bank.
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The director of the Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb has named Assistant Professor Mirando Mrsić, MD, PhD, as the head of the Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors.
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Maestro welcomed with a standing ovation by a fully packed Lisinski!
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Our own Medo recently read an interesting review of the documentary “I Want Life” by the blogger Nedeljko at http://nedo.kamencici.info/. Medo said he was fascinated by the way the man managed to grasp the point, the very essence of the film...
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Ana proved that the world can be changed!
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Cinestar Zagreb was the venue of last night’s gala premiere of the documentary film “I want life” which depicts the development of the Ana Rukavina
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The new additional postal stamps for the Foundation are available for sale as of March 10th until December 31st 2009.
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On March 8th, International Women’s Day, for the third year in a row, the Women’s Forum of Kutina organized an action in order to raise money for tissue typing blood samples of potential bone ma
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Ružica Juras from Varaždin has donated 10,000 Kuna to the Foundation from the sale of her CD “Varaždin moj dragi” (My Darling Varaždin).
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Today I read an essay written by Ana Rukavina during her second year of high school, when she was 15 years old. The essay was written 14 years before her premature death!
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The 8th grade pupils at Luka Primary School in Sesvete organized an educational and humanitarian fundraiser for the Ana Rukavina Foundation and raised 15,318 Kuna to be used toward tissue typing blood samples of voluntary bone marrow donors.
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Pupils in the 8th grade class at Luka Primary School in Sesvete have organized an educational and humanitarian fundraiser for the Ana Rukavina Foundation.
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The Government of the Republic of Croatia has decided to grant the use of office space to the Ana Rukavina Foundation!
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