She was working at McDonald's near Fowler and Nebraska and said I should come to work there. I was about 20.

People don't realize how hard we work. You're on your feet all day working shoulder to shoulder with the crew.

The feeling was that losing anonymity was off-putting for someone who wouldn't know where they would be in 18 years' time.

It is clear, now that we can recruit only donors willing to be identified, that we need to change our strategies to target men in established relationships.

With the change in anonymity rules coming we saw a sharp fall in numbers and a change in the profile of applicants, perhaps reflecting the attitudes of different groups to anonymity.

This is proof that we are committed to reconciling aboriginal rights in Canada, ... We aren't stuck in the past, we are prepared to evolve.