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A North Carolina Transplant Family is Celebrating National Minority Donor Awareness Month
Please Register to be a Life-Saving Organ or Tissue Donor August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month. Many COTA families are waiting for their children and young adults to be matched to an organ or tissue donor. You can visit www.RegisterMe.org to indicate your wish to be a life-saving donor. Every day 17 people die waiting for an organ transplant here in the United States. One organ donor can save eight lives. COTA Patient Jazlyn McRavin Kidney Transplant Recipient August 1, 2023 — August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month. This national observance (first a day and then a week) was initiated in 1998 to increase our nation’s consciousness of the need for more organ and tissue donors…


