EasyJet Urges Passengers to Donate Change for Leukemia Charity Cause
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The budget airline easyJet announced this week it will ask passengers to donate their loose change to a cause it has named "charity of the year". Cash collected by cabin crew on flights throughout the summer could help save the lives of people waiting for bone marrow transplants.
The Anthony Nolan Trust matches bone marrow donors with leukemia patients in need of transplants. As the donations are to come from passengers flying to and from destinations in Europe, the charity has now teamed up with other bone marrow registers in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, Community Newswire said in a report.
The trust intends to use the proceeds from its partnership with easyJet to raise awareness across Europe of the urgent need for more bone marrow donors, and hopes to sign another 5,000 people on to the register. EasyJet's chief executive, Andrew Harrison, joined cabin crew members and the Anthony Nolan Trust's corporate fundraising manager, Michelle Lane, to launch the initiative today at Luton Airport.
EasyJet staff voted to make the Anthony Nolan Trust the airline's charity partner this year and have so far raised more than £50,000 through campaigns. Staff have also volunteered to become bone marrow donors. Since 1974, the Anthony Nolan Trust has saved the lives of more than 4,000 people who have not been able to find a bone marrow match from a relative.
charity, easyJet, leukemia
Charity News Online
The budget airline easyJet announced this week it will ask passengers to donate their loose change to a cause it has named "charity of the year". Cash collected by cabin crew on flights throughout the summer could help save the lives of people waiting for bone marrow transplants.
The Anthony Nolan Trust matches bone marrow donors with leukemia patients in need of transplants. As the donations are to come from passengers flying to and from destinations in Europe, the charity has now teamed up with other bone marrow registers in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, Community Newswire said in a report.
The trust intends to use the proceeds from its partnership with easyJet to raise awareness across Europe of the urgent need for more bone marrow donors, and hopes to sign another 5,000 people on to the register. EasyJet's chief executive, Andrew Harrison, joined cabin crew members and the Anthony Nolan Trust's corporate fundraising manager, Michelle Lane, to launch the initiative today at Luton Airport.
EasyJet staff voted to make the Anthony Nolan Trust the airline's charity partner this year and have so far raised more than £50,000 through campaigns. Staff have also volunteered to become bone marrow donors. Since 1974, the Anthony Nolan Trust has saved the lives of more than 4,000 people who have not been able to find a bone marrow match from a relative.
charity, easyJet, leukemia
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