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2011 SESSION


HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 726
Commending Save a Life - Save the World Foundation.

 

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, January 28, 2011
Agreed to by the Senate, February 3, 2011

 

WHEREAS, Save a Life - Save the World Foundation, located in Ashburn, is commended for its efforts to help veterans and their families cope with blood cancers; and

WHEREAS, Save a Life - Save the World Foundation helps service members exposed to Agent Orange toxins during their tours of duty battle blood cancers by assisting them in finding bone marrow donors and accessing the support services they need during treatment; and

WHEREAS, bone marrow donations are often used to treat devastating blood cancers such as lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma; and

WHEREAS, Save a Life - Save the World Foundation educates the general public about how individuals can become potential bone marrow donors by first having a painless cheek swab taken and provides facts about the donation process itself; and

WHEREAS, Save a Life - Save the World Foundation is currently identifying and partnering with medical facilities across the country that will serve as Centers of Excellence to provide the painless cheek swab testing; and

WHEREAS, Save a Life - Save the World Foundation holds fundraising events to raise awareness in local communities of blood cancers, the need for more bone marrow donors, and how individuals can help veterans and their families who are struggling with blood cancer; and

WHEREAS, Save a Life - Save the World Foundation also provides services and funds to help veterans and their families who have been exposed to Agent Orange and are now suffering from a blood cancer; and

WHEREAS, Save a Life - Save the World Foundation has reached out with great determination and compassion to help those who have so generously given of themselves in the service of our country; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly commend Save a Life - Save the World Foundation for its efforts to help veterans and their families cope with blood cancers; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Save a Life - Save the World Foundation as an expression of the General Assembly’s admiration and respect for the organization’s commitment to the health of America’s veterans.