Monday, April 06, 2009

Donor Day - Tuesday 7th April

Holly Shaw received a kidney transplant in October last year after waiting 4 years on the list (receiving dialysis three times a week). While recovering from her transplant in hospital she heard the news she had won the Battlefront campaign. This is a Channel 4 programme allowing young people to fight for something they believe in. In this case Holly chose organ donation, and so the 'Gift of Life' campaign was born. She has done so much work already but one of the larger campaigns is for tomorrow - "Donor Day" - where people are setting up stalls all around the country to educate and sign up people to the organ donor register. The theme being "Become a 2 minute hero" - because that's all it takes to sign the register - the same amount of time as it does to boil the kettle for a cup of tea...





So, go on.....put the kettle on and sign the register!

Click here for donor register
Click here for Holly's blog
Click here for Gift of Life webpage

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