Student’s Involvement with Carolina Donor Services Leads to Campus Award

Carolina Donor Services recently recognized Lenoir-Rhyne University for winning the 2010 National Donation Campus Challenge event.

Started by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, the National Donation Campus Challenge unites the federal government, organ donation community, colleges and universities to educate campus communities on the critical need for more organ and tissue donors. They work to increase donor registration through statewide donor registries.

Lenoir-Rhyne University won the challenge with 127 registrations. Led by student Amber Douglas and the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., the challenge offered students campus-wide donation education sessions, donor drives, and a movie night that featured the movie Seven Pounds. L-R also brought current Mrs. North Carolina, Tammi Murray, to help raise awareness and encourage students to register.

Amber took this challenge on not only for her school, but also for her mother, a recipient of a double lung transplant that improved her life drastically. The tight bond between the Zeta Phi Beta sisters encouraged each of them to help with this cause. Through Amber’s mother, they saw what it means to get a second chance at life.

Along with Lenoir-Rhyne, Alamance Community College, Pitt Community College, and Lenoir Community College participated in the challenge.

About Carolina Donor Services

Carolina Donor Services is the federally designated, not for profit organ and tissue donation organization serving 6.1 million people in 78 counties of North Carolina and Danville, Virginia. In North Carolina, there are over to 3,000 people currently on the waiting list for a life saving organ transplant, across the United States there are over 110,000 people waiting for an organ transplant. For more information about Carolina Donor Services please visit their website at www.carolinadonorservices.org or call 1-800-200-2672.