Donate Life America (DLA), the national organization promoting organ, eye and tissue donation, has launched a bold new initiative to register 20 million people in 2012 on state donor registries. Donate Life North Carolina and it's members have accepted the challenge setting a statewide goal for North Carolina at 200,000 additional donors this year. Several events will be held throughout the year to bring attention to the initiative.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Liver Recipient, Kara Thio, Along With 8 Other Organ Recipients Will Ride With 10 Donor Family Members, 4 Living Donors and 4 Tissue Recipients To Inspire People To Give The Gift of Life
A college junior, North Carolina native Kara Thio is the picture of a happy, healthy, successful student, thanks to the life-saving liver transplant she received as an infant, nearly 20 years ago. On January 2nd, she will be on national television
Thursday, December 8, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – December 7, 2011 – Donate Life North Carolina (DLNC) presented a commemorative medal to Speaker Pro Tem Dale R. Folwell (Rep-Forsyth) to recognize his commitment to saving lives by increasing organ, eye and tissue donation.
The medal was developed to celebrate reaching 100 million registered donors nationwide, a major milestone in donor designation in the United States. In North Carolina, 4,107,159 people have registered to save lives through organ and eye donation. This makes North Carolina’s donor registry the sixth largest in the country.
Bob Russ, Chairperson of
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Herald SunDURHAM — It started later than scheduled and took longer than planned, but by the end of the day Monday, Sue Gommer and Jeffrey Rogers were expected to have new leases on life.Gommer and Rogers were the recipients of a set of paired kidney donations. Both suffering from kidney failure, they each received new organs from people they didn’t know during surgical procedures at Duke Hospital. The final set of procedures — Sue Gommer’s daughter, Jennifer, donating her kidney to Rogers — didn’t begin until after 6 p.m.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
RALEIGH, NC – November 15, 2011 – Donate Life North Carolina (DLNC) presented a commemorative medal to Representative Mitch Gillespie (Rep-Burke/McDowell) to recognize his commitment to saving lives by increasing organ, eye and tissue donation.
The medal was developed to celebrate reaching 100 million registered donors nationwide, a major milestone in donor designation in the United States. In North Carolina, 4,107,159 people have registered to save lives through organ and eye donation. This makes North Carolina’s donor registry the sixth largest in the country.
Sharon Hirsch, Executive
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Carey, a 21-year-old college student, was shot and killed by a mentally ill student. Carey’s sister knew that he had indicated his desire to be a donor on his driver’s license.