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April: National Donate Life Month
Organ procurement organizations, transplant centers, and other organizations sponsor special awareness events and donor recognition ceremonies to promote donation awareness.

July: National Donor Recognition Workshop & Ceremony - Alternating odd-numbered years
Donors and their families from across the country are honored in the Nation's Capital by the Federal government and the transplant community for giving the Gift of Life. Includes Saturday workshops and a donor recognition ceremony on Sunday. More Donor Recognition Workshop & Ceremony Information

July: U.S. Transplant Games - Alternating even-numbered years
Olympic-style athletic events for transplant recipients celebrate the life-enabling gifts given by organ and tissue donors. Organized by the National Kidney Foundation. Medals are awarded to recipient winners, and to living donors and donor family members at separate recognition ceremonies. The Transplant Games illustrate that transplantation works to extend and enhance life. More U.S. Transplant Games information

August 1: National Minority Donor Awareness Day
Intensive awareness campaign focuses on obstacles related to minorities and donation, promotes healthy living and disease prevention to decrease the need for transplantation and reaches out to all ethnic groups. Observances have included prayer breakfasts, health walks, and donor drives.

November: National Marrow Awareness Month
A special nationwide effort to recruit volunteer marrow, blood stem cell, and umbilical cord blood donors and to increase patient awareness of the option of unrelated transplantation. More marrow donation information (not a U.S. government Web site)

November: Two Weekends Before Thanksgiving: National Donor Sabbath
Faith communities across the country focus on the critical need for organs, tissues, marrow, and blood, and their life-enhancing capabilities. Faith leaders participate in discussions of donation with their congregants, and faith communities sponsor donation awareness activities during this 3-day celebration of life. National Donor Sabbath 2006

The St. Louis Chapter of the Second Wind Lung Transplant Association, Inc.

Announces

Fifth Annual LUNG WALK - "Every Breath Counts"

DATE: OCTOBER 17, 2009

TIME: Registration 8:00 am, Start Time 9:00 am

LOCATION: Historic Forest Park in St. Louis Missouri

ENTRANCE FEE: $25.00; $30.00 race day

The Lung Walk benefits the Second Wind Assistance Fund which is a charitable provider of limited financial assistance to lung transplant patients of St. Louis area providers. The fund is designed to help pay for medical and other related expenses that are of an emergency or non-insured nature.

Prizes, Awards, Food, Booths, Entertainment.

For additional information visit www.secondwindstl.org
Call 636-343-0667 or 314-664-6360

Please, help us make life better for those waiting for a life-saving Lung Transplant.

NATIONAL TRANSPLANT DAYS OF OBSERVANCE