{"id":6162,"date":"2013-11-20T16:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/uk-asian-music-artists-organise-a-street-party-for-gaurav\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:36:22","slug":"uk-asian-music-artists-organise-a-street-party-for-gaurav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/uk-asian-music-artists-organise-a-street-party-for-gaurav\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Asian music artists organise a street party for Gaurav"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Artists come together against blood cancer for patients<\/h3>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin-top:0cm;\n\tmargin-right:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0cm;\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\"Calibri\",\"serif\";\n\tmso-bidi-\"Times New Roman\";}\nspan.hps\n\t{\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\"Calibri\",\"serif\";\n\tmso-bidi-\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoPapDefault\n\t{\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tline-height:115%;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n]]><\/style>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"225\" width=\"460\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gaurav-Bains-460x225.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Two-year-old Gaurav Bains, has united the nation with a campaign to find him a stem cell donor, as local communities come together to hold recruitment events up and down the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Gaurav, who lives in Tipton is a cute and lively two year old boy like most children his age however, his parents Gurprit and Sunny Bains have to take extra care because he has a rare condition called Monosomy 7, a disease which suppresses his immune system. This means that any of the usual childhood coughs and sneezes are a serious issue for him, resulting\u00a0in a hospital stay and intravenous antibiotics, which leave him very debilitated.\u00a0<strong>Gaurav urgently needs a bone marrow transplant because without one, he will develop aggressive leukaemia.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the public who have been touched by the story, Asian celebrities and singers have been supporting the appeal and Birmingham Bhangra artist Foji Gill has gone that one step further and organised a street party in the heart of Birmingham\u2019s multi-cultural community on Soho Road, this coming Saturday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> November 2013. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The street party is being hosted by RaajFM radio outside the library on Soho Road andwill feature some of the biggest names from the UK Asian music scene such as, Bups Saggu, Shin DCS, Aman Hayer, Apache Indian, Tru Skool, Benny Dhaliwal and so many more \u2013 the list is endless!<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Foji Gill supported a recent donor recruitment event in Birmingham where he registered to become a potential stem cell donor. It was at that event he decided he wanted to do more and took it upon himself to arrange this street party. Foji spoke to Sunny Bains (Gaurav\u2019s father) and a few of the volunteers and gave them the idea about a street party. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foji said \u201cThis situation could happen to anyone, including my close family and it\u2019s okay giving ideas, but I thought what&#8217;s the use giving ideas if I can&#8217;t help , so I decided who better than me to do this, I know all of the artists and media contacts to put this into action so here we are. We have a great line up for the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> November, and I hope we\u2019ll gather a massive crowd on the day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Artists will be performing to show their support to the cause and also encourage the public to register on the day to become a potential stem cell donor. \u00a0<span>J<\/span><span><span>oseph Hallett, Donor Recruitment Manager at Delete Blood Cancer UK said, \u201c<strong><span>Anyone in good general health between the ages of 17-55 can register as<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong> a <span>potential stem cell donor, or help with a money donation to help to cover the tissue analysis costs of recruiting potential donors.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The event is not only being held to help find Gaurav and other patients find a donor, but to also to raise the awareness and educate people about the importance and ease of registering as a stem cell donor.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Gaurav\u2019s parents Sonny and Gurprit Bains have been brave, dedicated parents who have supported all of the donor recruitment events and have been actively spreading awareness for the need of more Asian donors on the register, not only to help their son Gaurav, but others out there too. Sunny and Gurprit are working tirelessly to raise awareness of the urgent need to find Asian bone marrow donors, <span>currently only 4 per cent of those on the register have the stem cell characteristics of\u00a0someone of an Asian background.<\/span>. <strong>Sunny said, \u201cUntil this happened to Gaurav, I had no idea of the critical shortage of Asian donors. As more and more people have become aware of Gaurav\u2019s situation, the response has been tremendous.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span>Joseph Hallett continued, \u201cOnly 30 per cent of people are lucky enough to find a matching donor for blood stem cell donation within their family. The other 70 per cent rely on the register of potential donors to try to find an unrelated donor. The search <span>to find someone who could match their tissue type is further complicated by the fact that too few people<\/span> are registered as <span>potential stem cell donors, and you have to be registered to be matched with someone.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Gaurav\u2019s parents and his four year old sister were tested but sadly did not provide a match for him. <strong>Sonny said \u201cYou just feel helpless, and as a parent that is one of the worst feelings in the world. If I could take his place and take the illness away from him I would, but I can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Foji concluded \u201cI want us to take advantage of this opportunity to get as many people registering, educating them about being a stem cell donor and informing them of how easy it is for them to help to potentially save a life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><em>The street party which is being organised by Foji Gil, in partnership with Delete Blood Cancer UK and being supported by Raaj FM radio will take place between the hours of 12-6pm on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> November at Handsworth Library and South &amp; City College, on Soho Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, B21 9DP.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists come together against blood cancer for patients &#13; Two-year-old Gaurav Bains, has united the nation with a campaign to find him a stem cell donor, as local communities come together to hold recruitment events up and down the country. &#13; Gaurav, who lives in Tipton is a cute and lively two year old boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}