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Feb
21
6:00 PM18:00
Donations, Charity

Love Your Body Meetup

Love Your Body Valhalla

All throughout the month of February we're celebrating loving our bodies. 

We'll have a cork board dedicated to love notes to ourselves. You can post positive affirmations, pledges to love yourself, or anything that makes you happy. 

We'll have wine and light apps during the event and you'll get an opportunity to meet some lady neighbors and be social while shopping. 

We're donating new members' first month of membership to Turning Point of Tampa during the event. Turning Point of Tampa helps women and men with eating disorders let go of self-defeating behaviors and create new life skills.

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Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive
Dec
11
11:00 AM11:00
Special Event, Charity, Donations

Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive

You could be someone's cure for cancer!

Join Valhalla in signing up to be part of the National Bone Marrow Registry with DKMS. Stop by on Monday, December 11th between 11AM and 4PM to learn more!  All it takes is a swab of your cheek and a quick form to join the international database of potential bone marrow donors! If you are a match, you can give a cancer patient a second chance at life!!!

You can change the odds for patients by adding yourself to the donor database.

Quick Facts:

  • The registration process only takes about 4 minutes and involves filling out a registration form and a cheek swab.
  • Anyone in good general health between the ages of 18-55 can register.
  • There is no charge to register although, it costs DKMS $65 to process each registration form and sample.
  • Donations are helpful but NOT required.
  • All of our donors are entered into the NMDP database, there is only one database.  If you have already registered, there is no need to re-register.
  • Of the donors matched, 75-80% are asked to donate stem cells which are extracted from the bloodstream, like giving platelets. 
  • Children under the age of 3 typically need actual bone marrow. In these cases the donor is given anesthesia and undergoes a short procedure to remove marrow from the back of the pelvic bone (20-25% of donors go through this collection method.)  The soreness is temporary and goes away within a matter of days, but the feeling of saving a life is permanent.
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Aug
21
to Sep 4
Charity, Donations

Solar Glasses Collection

Donate those glasses!

Donate those glasses!

Valhalla is collecting solar glasses to donate to Astronomers Without Borders so they can distribute them to South America and Asia for the eclipse coming up in 2019. Solar glasses have a useful life of 3 years so by the time the next solar eclipse happens on these continents, our glasses will still be working safely.

Help share the love of science with people all over the world by bringing in your glasses.  

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