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NATIONAL MONTH

Donate Life is the national symbol for the National Donate Life
cause of organ, eye and tissue donation.
BLUE & GREEN DAY
National Donate Life Month is celebrated every April. It is April 17!
features local and national activities to educate and The public is encouraged to wear blue
encourage Americans to register as donors and consider and green Donate Life colors and hold
living donation, as well as to celebrate those who have events to promote donation.
saved and healed lives through the gift of donation.

The Need is Great

More than 100,000 men, women Every 10 minutes another
and children await lifesaving organ transplants. person is added to the waiting list.

people die each day because the organs
Did You 22 they need are not donated in time.
Know?

50% of organ, eye
and tissue donors Nearly 40,000 organ
are authorized transplants from 19,250 donors RegisterMe.org
by registries. brought new life to patients and 4
their families in 2019.

More than 85,000
corneas are provided for
transplant each year. More than
156 million
people are registered organ,
More than 1.75 million
tissue transplants heal lives each year. eye and tissue donors.

Thank you to all donors, donor families, registered donors and champions of the Donate Life cause!

National Pediatric Transplant Week — April 19-25, 2020

This final week of April focuses on the powerful message of
ending the pediatric transplant waiting list.
More than 1,900

More than1,900 children
under the age of 18 are on the children received
national transplant waiting list. transplants in 2019.