Giovanni Background
• Baby Giovanni spent 6 ½ months at Boston Children’s suffering from a rare chromosomal disorder know as NEMO before getting a cord blood match to save his life and is doing well 8 months post-transplant
• his bone marrow drives have saved the life a 13-yr-old with leukemia and identified 6 matches for other patients who now have a chance to live
• He’s the largest patient driven bone marrow movement in history, and inspired the first bone marrow drive in the history of Italy
• 10,455 joined the registry during 114 drives since 1-17-07
• You can Google “baby Giovanni or help Giovanni” and get pages of hits
• He has three billboards in Massachusetts and two going up in NH
• There are over 100 newspaper, TV, or radio reports about Giovanni, and
• The Pope issued an Apostolic Blessing to Giovanni and was contacted to baptize him when he visits Italy to receive his honorary citizenship