Whereas many celebrities have been out partying over Halloween weekend in Los Angeles, Jason Momoa went again house to Hawaii for an excellent trigger.
The 43-year-old actor appeared at an occasion at Brigham Younger College – Hawaii on Friday, to advertise individuals registering for the bone marrow registry.
He did this on behalf of his longtime pal Travis Snyder, who suffers from leukemia, and a six-year-old boy named Rhyder Lopez, who was born with the ultra-rare genetic illness Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH).
Good trigger: Whereas many celebrities have been out partying over Halloween weekend in Los Angeles, Jason Momoa went again house to Hawaii for an excellent trigger
Momoa took to his Instagram over the weekend to share movies from the occasion and to get his 17.2 million followers to get entangled together with his Be The Match marketing campaign.
Momoa despatched the primary video on Friday, which confirmed the large actor rolling as much as campus on a bike to cheering followers, whereas he met younger Rhyder Lopez.
‘Mahalo Nui to @byuhawaii for internet hosting @bethematch it was superb assembly everybody in Laie yesterday, mahalo to everybody who got here to get swabbed,’ Momoa mentioned within the caption.
Rhyder: He did this on behalf of his longtime pal Travis Snyder, who suffers from leukemia, and a six-year-old boy named Rhyder Lopez (left), who was born with the extremely uncommon genetic illness Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Concerned: Momoa took to his Instagram over the weekend to share movies from the occasion and to get his 17.2 million followers to get entangled together with his Be The Match marketing campaign
Assembly Rhyder: Momoa despatched the primary video on Friday, which confirmed the large actor rolling as much as campus on a bike to cheering followers, whereas he met younger Rhyder Lopez
‘Hopefully one step nearer to discovering a match for Rhyder Lopez & @thetravissnyder, please! Go to hyperlink in bio and my story to study extra on how you can assist be a brilliant hero and save lives. Be a part of the registry ! Please do your half and make a distinction and assist! Aloha j’ he concluded.
The video additionally confirmed Jason and Rhyder getting leis whereas a haka was carried out for them, earlier than assembly Rhyder’s household and signing various autographs.
He additionally went out to satisfy his followers and thanked them for coming, including he would take an image with anybody who received swabbed to attempt to, ‘be the match.’
Autographs: The video additionally confirmed Jason and Rhyder getting leis whereas a haka was carried out for them, earlier than assembly Rhyder’s household and signing various autographs
Followers: He additionally went out to satisfy his followers and thanked them for coming, including he would take an image with anybody who received swabbed to attempt to, ‘be the match’
‘I get emotional after I give it some thought. If it is my children or your children… it would not take a lot. You simply received to swab a cheek, and it can save you some lives,’ Momoa mentioned.
‘From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks for coming. I really like you, Aloha!’ he mentioned to the group.
He was additionally seen hanging out whereas two followers received swabbed as they talked about how simple the entire course of was, displaying them swabbing the within of their cheek with a cotton swab.
Emotional: ‘I get emotional after I give it some thought. If it is my children or your children… it would not take a lot. You simply received to swab a cheek, and it can save you some lives,’ Momoa mentioned
Swab: He was additionally seen hanging out whereas two followers received swabbed as they talked about how simple the entire course of was, displaying them swabbing the within of their cheek with a cotton swab
Momoa additionally reposted BYU Hawaii’s video from the occasion that was posted on Sunday, thanking everybody once more for popping out to assist his worthy trigger.
‘Mahalo once more for everybody that took half and got here right down to BYU ! Please make a distinction save a life, be part of the registry hyperlink in bio! Aloha j’ Momoa mentioned.
Momoa’s pal Snyder has been battling acute myeloid leukemia since 2015, and discovering an identical bone marrow donor is extra sophisticated than simply matching blood varieties.
Thanks: Momoa additionally reposted BYU Hawaii’s video from the occasion that was posted on Sunday, thanking everybody once more for popping out to assist his worthy trigger
Sophisticated: Momoa’s pal Snyder has been battling acute myeloid leukemia since 2015, and discovering an identical bone marrow donor is extra sophisticated than simply matching blood varieties
An individual’s ethnicity is a key issue, with Momoa revealing within the video that, though Snyder is, ‘the whitest man I do know,’ he does have some Polynesian heritage, which is a part of why the weekend occasion was so vital.
As for younger Rhyder Lopez, each he and his 9-year-old brother named Rhaiden have been born with HLH, although Rhaiden discovered an identical donor seven years in the past whereas Rhyder remains to be ready for his blood stem cell match.
Followers can go to BeTheMatch.org/ForTravis to study extra about his story.
Polynesian: An individual’s ethnicity is a key issue, with Momoa revealing within the video that, though Snyder is, ‘the whitest man I do know,’ he does have some Polynesian heritage, which is a part of why the weekend occasion was so vital