Events
Organ Donor Awareness Week
Australian Organ Donor Awareness Week (AODAW) is the largest public awareness campaign in Australia associated with organ and tissue donation for transplantation.
AODAW aims to raise donation rates in Australia by focusing on the pressing need for organ and tissue donation, encouraging families to discuss and make an informed decision and highlighting the success of organ transplantation in Australia.
It also promotes the registration of consent on to the Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR) or the NSW RTA Register on your drivers licence.
AODAW is held is usually held in the third week of February each year.
If you would like to help us promote organ donation in your local community please contact 02 92294003.
A Time To Remember And Reflect............................
Organ and tissue transplantation has been enormously successful in Australia and can help the many Australians who are suffering life threatening illnesses, including heart, kidney and liver diseases, diabetes and cystic fibrosis.
It continues to touch our community as we are ten times more likely to need a organ transplant than to become an organ donor and there are more than 1800 Australians waiting for a life saving transplant.
The generosity of organ and tissue donors makes transplantation possible.
An annual service of remembrance and reflection is organised by the LifeGift Team and it recognises the ethnic and cultural diversity of our community, which brings together donor families, transplant recipients and staff working in the organ donation sector.
The Service of Remembrance and Reflection for those touched by Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation
Saturday 30th May 2008 at 2pm
Wesley Centre, 220 Pitt Street Sydney 2000.
For more information about the Service of Remembrance and Reflection please call Alison Barnwell, Coordinator of Bereavement Services on 1800 355 042.