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--Cook Children's Medical Center and LifeGift Reunite Transplant Recipients with Donor Families --
MEDIA ALERT/PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
WHAT
Transplant recipients will have the opportunity to meet the families of their pediatric organ donors during a special tribute, "A Child's Gift ... A True Living Legacy."
WHEN:
Saturday, April 9, 2011
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE:
Cook Children's Medical Center
801 Seventh Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas 76104
Auditorium and Atrium
WHO:
Donor families from the Fort Worth area will meet the recipients of their children's organs face-to-face for the very firsttime.
*Media will have the opportunity to interview and photograph select donor families and transplant recipients.
WHY:
"A Child's Gift ... A True Living Legacy" takes place during April, which is National Donate Life Month. Designed to raise awareness of the critical need for organ and tissue donors, National Donate Life Month pays tribute to donors and celebrates the lives they've saved.
QUICK FACTS:
More than 110,000 Americans are waiting for a lifesaving transplant
Nearly 11,000 are Texans and nearly 3,000 live in the Fort Worth area
Every day, 18 people die due to the lack of available organs for transplantation
Thirteen people are added to the waiting list for organ daily
