Day 45 · Planned
Finish — Bone Marrow Awareness Day, Olympia
Olympia, WA
Olympia: the final planned Awareness Day
This day on the route
- Planned date
- The day
- Awareness Day
- Planned walking
- No planned route miles
Day 45: final planned Awareness Day in Olympia, with no planned route miles. Public meeting details must be confirmed separately; completion requires a confirmed update.
Day 45 is the tenth planned Awareness Day and the end of the campaign itinerary. No route miles are scheduled after the Capitol walking stage.
The final day remains in Olympia. The itinerary separates it from the planned walking finish at the Capitol, giving the campaign one more day for its educational purpose. Forty-five days contain 33 walking-only stages, two stages combining ferries with walking and ten Awareness Days, for 356.2 planned walking miles. The route updates will record the journey as it unfolds.
Jeana’s reason for undertaking it is personal. Her granddaughter Jada was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at one month old and received a transplant at seven months. Torsten Huber had joined a donor registry in Germany after reading a newspaper article, before Jada was born. The full account follows those people and the relationship that grew from the donation.
The next step for a reader is a considered decision through an official registry. Read the requirements for where you live and the information about what may follow registration. JBF’s registry finder connects readers with those organizations and their registration guidance.
Jada and Torsten’s story began with a decision made before they knew one another. The campaign closes with an invitation to learn about registration and consider that decision for yourself.
Choose where you live
Continue to the official registry that serves you. It decides eligibility, handles registration and contacts you if you may match a patient.
United States — NMDP
NMDP accepts new registry members who are 18 to 35, live in the US, its territories or freely associated states, can meet NMDP’s health guidelines, and are not already registered through another US organization. Joining happens at home: you answer a few questions on NMDP’s site, they mail you a free cheek-swab kit, and you swab and send it back. Once you are a member you stay listed until you are 61 unless you ask to be removed — 61 is when NMDP takes you off, not an age at which you can join. NMDP makes the final eligibility decision.
Check the listed age range
NMDP — Join the registry · checked Sep 1, 2026
Prefer to text? Send JADA to 61474 and NMDP will take it from there.
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Eligibility rules can change. Confirm the current requirements with the official registry before joining.
Give to the Jada Bascom Foundation
Choose a symbolic amount or enter your own in Givebutter. Your donation supports JBF’s work wherever it is needed most.
Sponsoring a mile, a day or a stop is a way of describing a gift to the Jada Bascom Foundation. It does not purchase anything on the route.
$100.00 is a suggested amount. Confirm or change it in Givebutter.
Sources
Local history and background reading for this stop.
- Jada, Torsten and the reason for the walk — checked Sep 5, 2026
- Join the donor registry — checked Sep 5, 2026
- Stem cell donation eligibility and registration — checked Sep 5, 2026
