{"id":57924,"date":"2019-03-08T02:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57924"},"modified":"2019-03-08T02:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T02:08:17","slug":"around-5000-people-wait-in-rain-for-hours-to-see-if-theyre-a-stem-cell-match-for-boy-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/03\/08\/around-5000-people-wait-in-rain-for-hours-to-see-if-theyre-a-stem-cell-match-for-boy-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 5,000 people wait in rain for hours to see if they&#8217;re a stem cell match for boy with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Oscar Saxelby-Lee, a 5-year-old from UK, is battling acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and his doctors have warned that the little boy has just three months to find a stem cell donor who can help cure his cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Oscar&#8217;s parents, Olivia Saxelby and Jamie Lee, launched an appeal to get as many people as possible to sign up to a blood stem cell donor register as part of a campaign called &#8220;Hand in Hand for Oscar&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Undeterred by heavy showers,\u00a0nearly 5,000 people stood in line\u00a0outside of Oscar&#8217;s school, which hosted the special drive for prospective donors to give a swab sample and donate blood to be considered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n&#8220;There are no words to express our heartfelt thanks and love for the thousands of amazing people who have turned up at Pitmaston Primary School this weekend,&#8221; Pitmaston Primary School wrote on Twitter. &#8220;We have registered 4,855 stem cell donors. The volunteers were incredible.&#8221;\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3239\/Nearly-5-000-People-Stand-In-Rain-For-Hours-To-Save-Boy-With-Cancer (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3239\/Nearly-5-000-People-Stand-In-Rain-For-Hours-To-Save-Boy-With-Cancer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3239\/Nearly-5-000-People-Stand-In-Rain-For-Hours-To-Save-Boy-With-Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Saxelby-Lee, a 5-year-old from UK, is battling acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and his doctors have warned that the little boy has just three months to find a stem cell donor who can help cure his cancer. Oscar&#8217;s parents, Olivia Saxelby and Jamie Lee, launched an appeal to get as many people as possible to sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}