April is National Donate Life Month, an opportunity to share information about the need for organ and tissue donation in your community. LifeLink^® of Georgia is the state’s federally designated nonprofit organ and tissue recovery organization.

In 2021, 41,354 transplant patients in the U.S. received lifesaving organ transplants, of which 1,243 were in Georgia, which is more than ever before in a calendar year. This is thanks to 574 generous deceased and living donors from Georgia. Still, over 3,500 Georgians are still awaiting a transplant. One donor can impact as many as 75 lives. There are nearly 106,500 men, women, and children in the United States on the organ transplant waiting list and a new name is added to the list every ten minutes; twenty individuals will die each day because a much-needed organ does not become available in time.

As donation and transplantation increase, it’s clear that public education and efforts to increase organ donation such as this proclamation can improve lives, lives like those whose stories are told in the enclosed LifeLink^® annual report/2022 calendar.

19. a part of your proclamation process, we would also like to offer our free and flexible donor outreach and education program to your employees or community at any point during the year. We are more than willing to offer input and assistance, provide donation education materials to be distributed to staff or citizens onsite or via email, newsletter, or other method; however, we understand if you can only provide a proclamation. For the past two years, our ability to accept proclamations in person has been inhibited due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and as public health concerns change daily, we are hopeful but unsure if we will be able to attend proclamation issuance in person this year. If attending in person is an option for us, our organization would love to consider doing so. Please email us at sonja.tutein@lifelinkfound.org with the date, time, and other pertinent details of when the proclamation will be presented. In the event you wish to mail the proclamation, please send it to the attention of Sonja Tutein, at LifeLink^® of Georgia, 2875 Northwoods Parkway, Norcross, Georgia, 30071.

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