WELCOME TO NATASHA'S PLACE
Race is only skin deep, heritage is in your DNA. The young ladies pictured above are twins Hayleigh and Lyren Durant. They are holding their twin baby sisters, Leah and Miya. These four lovely young ladies represent the complex role that heritage (what's in your DNA) plays when it comes to determining who you are. You only need to look at them on the outside to appreciate how truly unique and different people can be from each other on the inside.
Natasha's Place, the National Mixed Heritage Cord Blood Bank, is being created to honor our mixed heritage daughter who died from the complications of a bone marrow transplant using someone who was not her genetic match. She was attending medical school at Yale when she passed and would most likely be alive today if my wife and I had been offered an opportunity to bank her cord blood when she was born. But, as is often the case, families who are most vulnerable don’t learn what they need to know until it’s too late.
Our mission is very simple - we are here to insure that mixed heritage families and individuals receive equal access to the life saving potential of effectively safe stem cell transplants, not because it's good business but because it's our moral imperative. Our non-profit support group even provides grants to make private cord blood banking more affordable to families needing financial assistance.
Mixed Cord offers "Hope for Today" if someone already has a medical condition that requires a stem cell transplant and "Hope for Tomorrow" if it ever happens to your children, your spouse or you.
We're also the leading advocate and research group when it comes to the overlooked stem cell transplant needs of the mixed heritage community.
So while others can store your cord blood, Mixed Cord is the only company that you can be assured is putting your needs first and fighting to get you the rights that we pray you will never have to use.
Sincerely,
Theodore Collins, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., Co-Founder |
