NEWS RELEASE Gift of Life Donor Program 867 Fishburn Road Hershey, PA 17033 · 1-800-438-5093 · F: 717-533-4027
Contact: Dwendy Johnson 1-800-555-2346 (office) 215-285- 9548 (cell)
Jerry Rizzo 570-555-4578 (office) 570-555-7549 (cell)
Feb. 28, 2010 For immediate release
NEW BOOTH AT BLUE -WHITE GAME TO RAISE ORGAN DONOR AWARENESS
A nonprofit organization dedicated to recovering and distributing organs and tissues used in life-saving and life-enhancing transplants will have a booth to raise awareness about National
Donate Life month at this year’s Blue-White Weekend.
April is National Donate Life month and to raise awareness the Gift of Life Donors
Program is inviting Penn State and surrounding communities to visit the Donate Life PA organ donor awareness booth at this year’s Blue-White Weekend.
The Donate Life PA booth will operate from Friday night April 23 and through the day on April 24. The group hopes to achieve 500 new donor designations as a direct result of the
2010 Blue-White Weekend.
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“There is a shortage of available organs and because of that 18 people die every day,” said Howard M. Nathan, Gift of Life president and CEO. “Signing up is easy, it takes 90 seconds to save lives. We hope that by providing on-site donor designations we can make it even easier.”
The Donate Life PA booth will have 10 laptops staffed by members of the Donate Life
PA volunteer team available to assist in the on-site donor registration process. The booth will also feature an airbrush tattoo artist and a beanbag toss from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 24.
Participants of the beanbag toss will be awarded Donate Life PA t-shirts and rubber bracelets for tossing beanbags into holes.
The Gift of Life Donor Program is one of the oldest and largest of 58 organ procurement organizations in the United States and devotes its efforts to serving the eastern half of
Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.
Gift of Life coordinates life-enhancing tissue transplants for area residents who are in need of corneas for sight-restoring procedures, as well as skin, tissue and bone to repair injuries.
Gift of Life also partners with 150 acute care hospitals to offer families from around the region the option of donation.
For more information about becoming an organ donor, National Donate Life month, Gift of Life, Donate Life PA or the Life Begins with You campaign, visit www.donatelife-pa.org.
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