The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), in partnership with the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), held a tabling event outside Brown Hall on Nov. 11 to assist UNC Asheville students in signing up for the NMDP registry and promote the importance of the program.
“About 80% of our business happens on college campuses. UNC Asheville has been an amazing campus with SAAC and the men’s soccer team, swimming and other sports. It’s been a very successful location for us,” said Cavin Villarreal, member recruitment coordinator for NMDP.
According to Villarreal, it’s important for NMDP to come to college campuses because the students really know their campus and their community. If you can tap into a campus’s community network, you can go a lot further in getting people on board with the idea of stem cell donation, which can be daunting to many…