Jasmina Amena, above, with best friend Isabelle Huurman Photo by: Courtesy DKMS America
Rihanna is stepping forward to help a 5-year-old New York City girl find a bone marrow donor – the second time in a year that the Grammy Award winner has helped a leukemia victim seek a match.
"When I saw the video of Jasmina it broke my heart. It is so unfair that for a black patient it's so much harder to find a bone marrow match," the singer tells PEOPLE exclusively. "Jasmina has acute leukemia and she needs a bone marrow transplant to live."
In February 2008, Rihanna helped another female, New Yorker Lisa Flynn find a match by putting out a call for donors on PEOPLE.com.
"More than 5,000 donors came forward," says Katharina Harf of DKMS, the world's largest nonprofit marrow donor center, which is helping to find a match for Jasmina. "Rihanna has already helped DKMS save many lives," says Harf. "Now we can count on her again."
Hopefully she can still work on this project now and doesn't let the domestic issue stop her.
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