Posts tagged with "Karaiskakio Foundation"

World Marrow Donor Day - 15 September 2018 Health

World Marrow Donor Day - 15 September 2018

September 11th, 2018 The World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA), representing 31 million donors from 55 different countries announced the celebration of World Marrow Donor Day (WMDD) for this year on September 15. It is a special day to thank all donors who have provided bone marrow transplant for a patient somewhere in the world, but also all people that ran...
Helping to keep children smiling Entertainment

Helping to keep children smiling

June 13th, 2018 The Karaiskakio Foundation will run a charity event at the presidential palace in Nicosia on Monday which will present talks about how children and women can be respected in our society. The purpose of the event, which is under the aspices of first lady Andri Anastasiades, is to support the Karaiskakio Foundation’s goal to create a...
Help create a world full of childhood smiles Company News

Help create a world full of childhood smiles

June 12th, 2018 With the above message, which wishes to state the importance of happiness in children, Alphamega Hypermarkets and the Karaiskakio Foundation announced the beginning of their new campaign, which will see the former financially support the latter’s goal to create a diagnostic and research centre for childhood cancer. The two...
Turkish Cypriot girl seeking bone marrow donor Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot girl seeking bone marrow donor

December 20th, 2017 The family of nine-year-old Halime are appealing for a bone marrow donor for their daughter who has been battling leukemia since March. A request for a donor has been filed at the Karaiskakio foundation in Nicosia through a Turkish Cypriot foundation Kemal Saratsoglou. According to the Cyprus News Agency, Karaiskakio is searching...
Schoolchildren donate their hair for good cause [VIDEO] Cyprus

Schoolchildren donate their hair for good cause [VIDEO]

February 11th, 2016 Fifty one ponytails were donated and 38 heads shaved at a charity event organised by the English School on Thursday. Students, parents and graduates of the English School were invited to donate hair and register as bone marrow donors at the premises. Organised by the school’s ‘We care we help’ club, the event was in support...
It’s just a pinch Entertainment

It’s just a pinch

September 18th, 2015 By Maria Gregoriou As tomorrow is World Marrow Donor Day and as the Karaiskakio Foundation has proclaimed September as Leukaemia month it is the perfect opportunity to go to the centre and give blood. According to the centre, one in three Cypriots aged between 34 and 45 have already donated blood and are on record in the event that...
Nearly 30 Cypriots donated bone marrow for patients in 12 countries this year Cyprus

Nearly 30 Cypriots donated bone marrow for patients in 12 countries this year

September 10th, 2015 Twenty nine Cypriots have donated bone marrow for transplantation in 12 countries in the last eight months, according to the Karaiskakio Foundation press release, which has declared September ‘Leukemia month’. The foundation said every three minutes a person will be diagnosed with some type of blood cancer and every 10 minutes a...
Hard times for Karaiskakio Cyprus

Hard times for Karaiskakio

November 29th, 2014 By Evie Andreou THE Karaiskakio Foundation is facing financial problems due to a reduction in state aid and a lack of research funds, its director Dr Pavlos Costeas said yesterday. The creation of the donor registry was deemed necessary after the deaths of three Cypriots, Yiannis Tritaios, Anna Georgiou and five-year-old Andreas...
Cypriot children in Berlin for bone marrow transplant Cyprus

Cypriot children in Berlin for bone marrow transplant

November 12th, 2014 IN THE past two years, ten children from Cyprus have undergone bone marrow transplants at the Hospital of Berlin while another three are to be hospitalised there for a transplant. The surgery was carried out by the Head of the Department of Transplant Hospital Berlin Dr Wolfram Ebell, who recently visited Cyprus to examine the...
A minute with Pavlos Costeas, Executive Director, Karaiskakio Foundation A minute with

A minute with Pavlos Costeas, Executive Director, Karaiskakio Foundation

September 11th, 2014   Where do you live? In a full house in Nicosia (with my wife, our four children, one dog, two cats and one parrot) Best childhood memory? Running barefoot at my grandmother’s village in Famagusta. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? Maroullou’s restaurant in Palaichori; all-time favorite dish:...
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