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YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE LIVES. PLEDGE AND REGISTER TODAY

Follow us to learn more about organ donation and our national efforts to raise awareness about the critical need for donated organs. We are finding inspiration in unexpected places.

BECAUSE ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION MATTERS

There are over 113,000 Americans waiting for a life-saving transplant. Registering takes only a few minutes. Please encourage your family, friends and colleagues to pledge the "gift of life" by signing up at your State's donor registry. Click HERE to learn how. Californians, please visit Donate Life California.

Our Pledge Life Memoria l, "Celebrate Life...Remembrance". We are pledging to HONOR, remember and celebrate the lives of donors, transplant recipients, donation and transplant community members. Will you PLEDGE with us to do the same?

April 27,2012 - - - - 113,953 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST

91,996 waiting for a kidney

16,098 waiting for a liver

1,269 waiting for a pancreas

2,153 waiting for a Kidney-Pancreas

3,172 waiting for a heart

1,632 waiting for a lung

52 waiting for a heart-lung

278 waiting for small bowel

One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives

One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals

You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HERE

Saturday, April 30, 2011

2011 DONATE LIFE RUN / WALK
Source: Donate Life Organ Donation Blog

What an amazing morning this was! Thousands walked to honor organ and tissue donors and transplant recipients. Enjoy the slide show .... we shall see you in 2012 for an even bigger event.

Please also join the Donate Life Run/Walk Facebook Fan Page to read about impressions, stories and view photos from our participants

3 COMMENTS:

tidblgrr said...: As a family member of a donor, I am SO thankful to have this opportunity to help. Thank you for all you do. Looking forward to next year!; April 30, 2011 6:24 PM
Grayci said...: Thank you to everyone ... SIEZE THE DAY!; April 30, 2011 9:43 PM
james krupa said...: I'm so honored to display my heart donor Charles Pesce in the Circle of Life Garden. I now live every day of my new life attached to him and am proud and thankful to be an Ambassador for Donate Life and OneLegacy. All of us recipients MUST continue to promote donation and help give life to others, I say this from my new heart! Jim Krupa; May 2, 2011 9:44 PM

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YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE LIVES. PLEDGE AND REGISTER TODAY

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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