Victoria Esperanza, the six-year-old from Malaga who was waiting for a bone marrow transplant, now has a date scheduled for the procedure.

Victoria Esperanza, the young girl from Malaga who is just six years old and has been waiting for a bone marrow transplant since last September, learned in mid-November that a donor had been found for her. This Monday, her family announced that she will undergo the procedure on December 18th, the day of the Virgin of Hope, a day of great significance for this deeply religious family.

In fact, the girl's mother, María del Mar Fernández, thanked the Virgin in a message sent to friends and family to share the good news: "The year has 365 days, of which, December has 31. I asked for a sign that you were with us and once again it has come, because in my house we don't ask the Virgin for favors, we just thank her because that is a very important day for us. Thank you, mother, for making the 18th the chosen day for the transplant," she wrote.

"There is no better day"

"Thank you because we could not have a better day, the day of Hope, and in HER we place all our faith and prayers, because with you nothing is coincidental. Now, on December 18th we will celebrate Victoria's LIFE DAY 'YourVictoryisMyHope'," the mother stated in her message.

In statements to SUR, María del Mar Fernández mentioned that she and her daughter have been isolated since December 10th undergoing pre-transplant chemotherapy and everything is going "very well." "She is singing Christmas carols by Niña Pastori every day, it's hard to keep a six-year-old with such vitality confined in a room, but she is managing very well," she added, noting that the procedure will involve the young girl receiving a bag with hematopoietic stem cells extracted from Victoria Esperanza's donor. "She is well, very happy and strong, but we cannot let our guard down," she remarked.

Victoria's family expresses their eternal gratitude for the gift of life received this Christmas

Furthermore, the mother specified that they are thanking "the donor and people like him every day, who have given not only Victoria, but also two other children with her, Leo and Tatiana, the chance to live their childhood. We are going to have a different kind of Christmas, but it will be full of life," she said.

The girl overcame leukemia, but relapsed in June 2025. The chemotherapy did not work as expected, so the family launched a campaign on social networks in September to raise awareness about the importance of donating marrow, a campaign that went viral thanks to the unanimous support of the brotherhoods and fraternities of Malaga. In mid-November, it was announced that a marrow donor had been found, as communicated by the doctors at the Oncology and Hematology Service of the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville, where the girl and her mother reside.

The Donor

The donor underwent a process called apheresis, during which blood is drawn from the donor and passed through a machine that separates and preserves the stem cells, which are then given to the young girl in a manner similar to a blood transfusion, as they are compatible.

Victoria Esperanza was first diagnosed with leukemia at the age of three and underwent treatment for two and a half years, which ended in May 2024. In October of the same year, she rang the bell, but in June 2025 she relapsed, started chemotherapy again but it was "much harder, I don't know if it's because it's more aggressive or because after what she has been through it's worse, but the first hospital stay, which lasted a month and a half, was horrible. In September, they told us that the chemotherapy was not working as before, because the first cycle of chemotherapy should clean the marrow, but that wasn't happening now and we were informed that a transplant was necessary," a situation that seems to have been resolved given the good news that has now reached the family.

Next Thursday, if all goes well, Victoria Esperanza will have received the transplant on the day of the Virgin who shares her name, the most cherished.