About Us

Who Are We?

We are an awareness organization that informs people about the benefits of being and/or becoming an organ donor. We provide statistics and stories through brochures and our website in order to save lives. We also travel to different businesses to spread awareness.

We gain our information from like such as UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing), who find donors for those in need of organs.

Citations: Donate Life. N.d. WordPress. Organ and Tissue Donation. Web. 12 Aug. 2015.



       

|*~Inspiration~*|

Quotes

• "No one knows when they might die, but when you go, you can leave a legacy."
• Tribhawan Persuad

• "When I was at my sickest, I felt there was no hope for me. Now I provide hope to those who are waiting for the gift of life."
• Mireya Vallina

Mireya suffered from kidney disease and received a transplant 2 years later.

• "Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep apart of you alive."
• Author Unknown

Who To Contact

Who to Contact

• Who to contact for more information:
• Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN): https://http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/

• Unos: www.unos.org

• Who to contact to become a donor:
• Organdonor.gov | 1-888-275-4772, from 8:30PM to 5:00PM.
• American Transplant Foundation
• www.americantransplantfoundation.org | Phone: 303-757-0959

|~*Stats*~|

Numbers, Numbers, Numbers

• As of today at 10:36am 122,360 need an organ transplant to live. Out of those people, 78,691 are on the waiting list.

• As of May 2015, there are 5,975 organ donors. 1 donor can save 8 lives.
• 5975 x 8 = 47,800
• 122,360 - 47,800 = 74,560
• That means there is a total of 74,560 people who still need organs.

• 22 people die each day while waiting for a transplant.

• In 2014 4,270 died waiting for a transplant and 3,617 became too sick to receive a transplant.

• 2014 was a record breaking year for the number of transplants performed and the number of deceased donor transplants.

• 90% of Americans support donations, but only 30% actually know how to become a donor.

• Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.

Citations: 

"Data." UNOS. Web. 12 Aug. 2015. <https://www.unos.org/data/>. We used this website for the most accurate information and statistics about organ transplants.