Jazz singer Alex Pangman and the family of Mississauga's Manny Castillo will be featured tomorrow morning on a special edition of CTV's Canada AM that focusses on organ donation.
Airing from 7-9 a.m., the program will feature the first post-surgery one-on-one television interview with recent transplant recipient Hélène Campbell. She catapulted organ donation awareness into the international spotlight when she received support and publicity from pop music superstar Justin Bieber and talk show host Ellen Degeneres.
Campbell will be interviewed by Canada AM's Beverly Thomson about her recovery from her double lung transplant last month.
Pangman, who has produced several CDs of jazz, swing and country music, also received a new pair of lungs after hers began to fail because of cystic fibrosis.
The Erindale Secondary School graduate has campaigned tirelessly in the media ever since, urging people to register as organ donors.
Castillo's family will talk about their decision to donate their son's organs when their 15-year-old son, a Lorne Park Secondary School student, died after he was injured during a rugby game against Erindale in 2007.
The decision helped save five other people's lives.
Read more learn how to tune in:
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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