COFFEE-RAISE

May is Coffee-Raise Month! Did you know that the Network is entirely funded by donations? Coffee-Raise is your chance to get involved by helping to raise funds for the Donor Family Network and to promote organ and tissue donation. And its something that anyone can do.

All you have to do is hold a coffee morning during May. At the coffee morning you can do whatever you want to raise money - charge for the coffee, sell cakes, hold a raffle, sell our pin badges. It’s also a great opportunity to talk about organ donation and encourage people to join the Organ Donor Register. It’s also a great way to get involved, meet people and have fun. All this while working to promote organ donation and raise much needed funds for the Donor Family Network.

Everything you need is on our website.

Do It Now - Do It For Jess

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Holly Needs Your Help on April 7th - new venues

Kidney recipient Holly Shaw is running a campaign to mark World Health Day (7 April 2009) to encourage more people to sign up to the Organ Donor Register. The aim is to talk to people about Organ Donation and encourage them to be pro-active and sign up by setting up Donor Desks in public places where people can ask questions and join the register. Holly's aim is to see how many people she can get to join the register in one day.

How you can get involved

Donor Day will only work with the help of volunteers - there are currently 15 Donor Desks all over the country on 7th April - could you go along and help on one near you?

London (University College Hospital)
London (Canary Wharf)
London (The Treasury)
London (City University)
Swindon
Croyden
Epsom (Market Square)
Isle of Man
Cambridgeshire
Sheffield
Cardiff
Birmingham x 2
Manchester
Warrington
Liverpool (RLUH)
Newcastle
York

Not one near you? Then perhaps you could run your own? Either way Holly would love to hear from you if you think you can help.
Contact Holly via her blog http://lifeondialysis--waitingforthecall.blogspot.com/

Bethany

Some of you may recognise the face of little Bethany. She has just featured in Tesco magazine as the face of their organ donation campaign - click here to read the article. She's only 5 and up until 20 days ago needed a liver transplant to save her life.

20 days ago Bethany had the call her family had waiting for. She had already been through two false alarms but this time the operation went ahead.

As of 29th January 316 people in the UK were waiting for a liver transplant. 21 of those were children.

The two pictures show Bethany before transplant (left) and just 9 days after (above). She is now home and enjoying the snow with her sister.

Somewhere a family said yes to organ donation and made this amazing transformation possible. They made it possible for one little girl to play in the snow with her sister.

Please talk about Bethany's story so that we can give all those currently on the list for transplant the hope of playing in the snow.

BATTLEFRONT

The amazing Holly is still working on the Battlefront campaign. This slideshow says it all - check out the web page and register your support.

http://battlefront.co.uk/campaign/the-gift-of-life/

William Gets His Call!!!

Last week little William (see below) had the call he had been waiting for. A donor had been found and his transplant took place just a week ago. The little lad is doing well and for the first time in three years able to take fluids by mouth. How amazing is that!

He's still a long way to go but these pictures show just he is doing amazingly well - out of ITU in just 24 hours.

Please send your thoughts and prayers to William and mum Sarah via her blog http://sarahmilne.blogspot.com/