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Devaanshi Mehta
Devaanshi Mehta (18 December 1996 – 28 June 2012) was an English-Indian student and humanitarian. She started the Asian Donor Campaign (ADC),〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.asiandonorcampaign.org )〕 a UK-based non-profit organisation whose goal is to raise awareness for the need to get more Asians to donate their blood, bone marrow and organs. ADC also raises much needed funds for hospitals doing cutting edge research into critical and life limiting illnesses.
==Biography==
Devaanshi was born to Harkant and Kalyani Mehta in the Harrow suburb of London. She was one of four children born into an Indo-Aryan, Hindu, Gujarati, Brahmin family. She had two older sisters, Jyotika and Tejal, and a younger brother, Dushyant. She went to the Cannon Lane and Pinner Wood Primary Schools, before attending Nower Hill High School.
At the age of nine, Devaanshi was diagnosed with a rare bone marrow condition called aplastic anaemia (bone marrow failure). She underwent a bone marrow transplant in April 2007 and a top up of bone marrow in February 2008 at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Both donations were made by her younger brother Dushyant who was her sibling match. However, she was left chronically platelet and red cell dependent after the transplant.In addition she inherited her brothers' rarer blood type AB-. Therefore it became increasingly difficult to source negative platelets for her, and she organised appeals via the media. This motivated Devaanshi to investigate problems other children faced sourcing blood, bone marrow and organs. She quickly learnt that it was extremely difficult for people to find these products at the right time, simply because there were a lack of donors within the Asian community as a whole. She knew that if her brother had not been a matched donor, she and her family would have faced very trying and anxious times waiting for a donor to come forward. These events in her life inspired her to start fundraising and raising awareness regarding the importance of blood, bone marrow and organ donation, especially for the Asian communities. Asians have traditionally avoided donating blood and organs due to social or religious misconceptions. Devaanshi wanted to ensure that no man woman or child should die as a result of mis-information or out of date myths.
Sadly, in 2010, Devaanshi's lungs collapsed and she had to have comprehensive lung surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital for children in Bloomsbury, London. Her lungs were so badly damaged and consequently she was put on palliative care. She was told that she did not have long to live. Whilst this news came as a devastating shock to her, Devaanshi decided that she would use her time left and declared that she would do all she could to educate people within the Asian community about the stark reality that people were dying as a result of shortage in blood, bone marrow and organs from her own community. Even though her health was deteriorating drastically, she organised charity fundraising events such as dinners, auctions, cake sales, dance nights and international evenings from her hospital bed. She also gave a number of interviews on television, radio and in print to raise awareness. Devaanshi also wrote a blog titled "My Story in My own Words", where she spoke candidly about her treatment and prognosis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://devaanshim.blogspot.com )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aclt.org/index.php/appeals/showappeal/172 )〕
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