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Monday, April 30, 2012

Residents 'Turn Tragedy Into Hope'

Mawah Patch


NJ Sharing Network members explain why 'donating life' is important to them as township officially dubs April Donate Life Month

Throughout Mahwah, a group of residents shares a connection that they call “uncomfortable, but completely supportive in a way that is difficult to explain.”

Members of the New Jersey Sharing Network work both as a support system for one another, and an advocacy and awareness organization that promotes organ donation. The many Mahwah members in the group joined either because they had a loved one who has donated organs, are signed up to be donors themselves, or have been the recipients of donated organs.

“It’s not something that people want to always think about or talk about because it is uncomfortable,” Mahwah resident Jackie Lue Raia, a manager at the Sharing Network, said. “It’s often associated with the end of life, but it’s so important. It needs to be talked about.”

Read more: http://mahwah.patch.com/articles/resident-explains-why-she-donates-life

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