According to Access Hollywood, six-year-old Jasmina Anema, the young Leukemia patient at the heart of DKMS Americas' "One for Jasmina" campaign, has found not one, but two possible bone marrow donors since Rihanna and Kelly Rowland visited her in the hospital and helped publicize the need to register bone marrow donors. With their help, Jasmina now has two possible matches for a transplant, which she desperately needs to fight the disease.
The Umbrella singer visited the little girl last month at the NYU Medical Center where she is currently hospitalized. She spent hours playing with Jasmina and even danced with her to some of Jasmina’s favorite Rihanna tunes. Within months of Rihanna making Jasmina’s search for a donor public, more than four-thousand people came forward. The singer told People magazine previously, “We can take action and sign up to be bone marrow donors. We can save the life of Jasmina and others like her.”
On Thursday, Rihanna made another rare public appearance, honoring 6-year-old Isabelle Huurman, who has pleaded publicly to find her best friend Jasmina a bone marrow transplant.
"I am so honored to be here to present the 'Links of Love' award to Isabelle for all she has done for her best friend," Rihanna told the crowd at the DKMS Gala in NYC, which included cancer survivor Kylie Minogue, Halle Berry, Chelsea Clinton and Amy Ryan. Rihanna then awarded Isabelle with a gold "best friend" necklace.
The event raised money to benefit DKMS, the largest bone marrow donation center in the world.
