The Icla da Silva Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose mission is to help children needing bone marrow transplants. They recruit donors for the National Marrow Donor Program, with special emphasis on recruiting people from ethnic groups underrepresented in the Registry. They sponsor Marrow Drives in the United States, and assist organizations in Central and South America that are helping children with leukemia. In addition, their ongoing goal is to help bring Central and South America into the worldwide network of unrelated bone marrow transplantation services.