Brian Daley, aka DJ Swing, died last week at the age of 39. Daley, formerly of the London based Boogie Bunch Crew, died on Wednesday following a long struggle with Leukaemia.
The DJ was diagnosed with the condition back in 2003, and, discovering that the chances of finding an Afro-Carribean bone marrow match are 100,000 to one, he launched a national campaign to persuade black British people to come forward and register as potential donors. He himself managed to find a donor late last year, sadly, the transplant apparently came too late to save his life. Daley said before his death: "We have to continue spreading the message, the work must not stop. Lives can be saved."
His campaign, documented in a Channel 4 documentary, will indeed continue. On Sunday, the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) held a special one-day bone marrow donor registration clinic at the Choice FM studios, and continue to look for those aged 18-43 to register in the hopes that they can help critically ill children as young as 12 who are struggling to find donors.
See http://www.aclt.org for more information on that scheme.