Taika Waititi goes on bone marrow registry for Dream Chaser Foundation

Christmas is known for two things here in New Zealand, a time for giving and a time to take a holiday and relax. For New Zealands own Taika Waititi however he'll only be doing one thing.

Waititi has taken the time to roll up his sleeves and go on the bone marrow registry. As an ambassador for the Dream Chaser Foundation - A Chace Topperwien Charity, which helps the families of cancer-stricken children, Waititi has heeded the call for more Maori and Pacific Island people to join the registry.

Waititi, whose hit Kiwi movies Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople have catapulted him to international fame, donated a bag of blood today at the New Zealand Blood Service in Auckland, which is all it takes to register to become a bone marrow donor.

- NZ Herald