Baby Margot desperate for stranger to save her from rare leukaemia

BEAUTIFUL baby Margot Martini is desperate for the kindness of a stranger to help her survive a rare form of blood cancer which is killing her.

BRAVE LITTLE LOVE: Margot remains a cheerful tot despite three bouts of chemo, but she desperately needs a donor 

The 18-month-old girl needs a bone marrow transplant, but none of her family have the right type of tissue to help her beat acute lymphoblastic and myeloid leukaemia.


She is being treated at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London for the disease which is so rare it affects just two peopled in the UK each year.
Her parents, Yaser and Victoria Martini, from Roehampton, south London, have launched a campaign called Swab: Save A Life, to find a donor.

Anyone who registers will be sent a simple DIY swab kit, which they can use to give a cheek cell sample.
Yaser, 44, said: “We’re asking people to do something amazing. Register a swab and save a life. It could be Margot’s. We know the odds are tiny, but a slim chance is better than no chance.

DESPERATE: Margot's family have come up with a clever idea to help her and other sufferers 
 

"The swab test is simple. If you are lucky enough to become a donor you are saving a life. It is a big deal.”
Baby Margot, who has two brothers, Oscar, six, and five-year-old Rufus, has already undergone three courses of chemotherapy, but according to Yaser she remains "a bonny, happy girl".

Suitable donors, aged between 17 and 55, can either give stem cells through a blood donation or a harvest of bone marrow.
For more information or to join the register visit: anthonynolan.org or deletebloodcancer.org.uk

NEEDS HELP OF A STRANGER: Margot needs a stranger to donate bone marrow or stem cells