Carolina Donor Services celebrates National Minority Donor Awareness Week August 1-7. This nationwide observance honors the generosity of multicultural donors and their families, while also addressing the critical need for people from diverse communities to register to become organ, eye and tissue donors. It’s a time to promote healthful living and disease prevention in order to decrease the need for a transplant. People from all ethnic and cultural groups are encouraged to register as donors at DonateLifeNC.org.
Although minorities make up 36 percent of the total U.S. population, they make up approximately 57 percent of those on the U.S. transplant waiting list. These 69,000 mothers, fathers, sons and daughters are desperately waiting for lifesaving transplants.
For more information about how to register as a donor or how to get involved please visit CarolinaDonorServices.org or call
1-800-200-2672.
