Did you know that there are currently 109,000+ patients awaiting a life saving organ transplant in the United States? Or that 19+ men, women, and children die each day because of the seriousness of this issue.

Did you know that approximately 13,000 children are currently waiting for a solid organ transplant, while another 10,000 children are awaiting a bone marrow, stem cell or cord blood transplant? Each year about 4,000 children are successfully transplanted. Unfortunately an equal number do not survive the wait because no match is available. These statistics will steadily increase without programs like ours.

Program- Community Education Outreach

THERE IS NO COST FOR THE ACT OF DONATION!

Key facts

• In the media you often hear about cancer, diabetes, HIV, and other deadly diseases.
• The urgent need for ORGAN DONORS is often a subject that many people do not discuss.
• There is a critical need for organ donors! The facts do not lie!!!
  African Americans make up only 12% of the U.S. population, but 35% of the patients currently on the waiting list are African American.
  
• By becoming an organ and tissue donor, you can help save up to 8 lives and enhance the lives
  of over 50 people.
  
• Every 13 minutes, a new name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
  

Thanks to United Network for Organ Sharing for providing us with this data. For more information visit http://www.unos.org