Bengu is an amazingly dynamic person, who lives locally, and among many other things organised this event in Mayow Park in 2011 for Macmillan Cancer Nurses. Although she's asking for bone marrow donors from the Turkish and Cypriot communities, it's certainly making me think about being some kind of donor myself. I'm going to be posting this link to my various other Turkish friends, hoping that they will get Bengu's message out there.
I also write as I am about to attend a funeral of friend who died recently of cancer, just learned of another friend who has suffered a similar bereavement, and an email and phone call from a close family member last night who has a life threatening cancer - hopefully caught in time.