Leave Them Certain is the theme for this year’s Organ Donation Week.
Organ Donation Week is coming up later this month. This is an awareness raising week from 20th - 26th September. This campaign aims to encourage us to talk to their loved ones about organ donation as families are always involved before organ donation goes ahead, so that when we die, we can leave them certain about our wishes… That conversation could be the most powerful thing you ever do to help save lives!
For further information about this year’s campaign and how you, your churches and your families can get involved in the discussions about this vital issue.
This is an issue which matters to all of us and we are glad that a couple of years ago Free Churches Group, working with the Blood Transfusion and Organ donation services, facilitated a one day conference with our member churches and groups. This was a useful event to help us to raise the profile and importance of these services, particularly for our churches who have members from Black, Asian and other ethnic communities. We would like to continue to encourage more blood and organ donors from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to come forward to meet the needs of patients from across our communities. Certain conditions, such as sickle cell and thalassaemia, are more prevalent within these communities.
(cover photo courtesy of Camilo Jimenez at Unsplash)