LIHU‘E — Helping up to 50 people with life-saving and life-enhancing procedures can be as simple as checking the organ donor box on a driver license renewal, said Lacene Terri, Legacy of Life Hawai‘i multi-cultural outreach officer. Terri and Enid
LIHU‘E — Helping up to 50 people with life-saving and life-enhancing procedures can be as simple as checking the organ donor box on a driver license renewal, said Lacene Terri, Legacy of Life Hawai‘i multi-cultural outreach officer.
Terri and Enid Liua, the community outreach coordinator for Legacy of Life Hawai‘i, were joined by a group of people representing organizations with the Hawai‘i Coalition on Donation as well as organ donors and recipients in celebrating the month of April as National Donate Life Month.
“We’re going over to the DMV right after we see the mayor to speak with them about the organ donor box,” Terri said.
Legacy of Life Hawai‘i is a group dedicated to its mission of saving lives through recovering organs and tissue for transplant, providing the complete range of services required to effectively recover donated organs and tissue, support donor families, establish and maintain good relationships with hospitals and inspire Hawai‘i’s diverse communities to donate the gift of life, states its website.
In Hawai‘i, more than 400 people are waiting on liver, kidney or pancreas transplants, the mayoral proclamation states. The aloha tradition of caring and compassion for others will help increase the number of organ donors among Hawai‘i residents, according to Terri, who was pleased with the mixture of people who visited Carvalho for the National Donate Life Month.
“We have recipients, donors and people from different groups working on organ donation and awareness of organ donation,” Terri said. “This is really nice.”
Visit www.legacyoflifehawaii.org for more information.
