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For Valentines Day, Plan on donating! (Etsybloggers this means you too!)

 

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Valentine's Day is the day of love and donation is a gift of life. Can you think of a more loving gesture than making February 14 the day you join thousands of Americans in making the decision to become a donor?
National Donor Day encourages blood, marrow, blood stem cell and organ , eye and tissue donation.

Sign up to Donate for Life here, or just learn more about it.

Be an Organ and Tissue Donor
Help Create a Donation Friendly America!
Each organ and tissue donor saves or improves the lives of as many as 50 people. Giving the "Gift of Life" may lighten the grief of the donor's own family. Many donor families say that knowing other lives have been saved helps them cope with their tragic loss.

Organ Donor.gov to sign up or learn more info.

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In partnership with Saturn Corporation and the United Auto Workers Union , donation organizations provide an opportunity for all Americans to visit a Saturn Dealerships in their area to give blood, join the National Marrow Registry and learn about how to commit to being an organ, eye and tissue donor
Why be a donor? Because the need is constant and growing.
Over 110,000 are in need of an organ transplant. And thousands of children and adults in our country have life-threatening blood diseases that could be treated by a marrow, blood stem cell or cord blood transplant. Someone in America needs blood every two seconds.
On this Valentine’s Day, celebrate the people you love by becoming a donor.

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  1. Dear KDF,
    This post is so lovely. I know so many waiting patients and some medicines are made from donated things such as blood. Thank you so much.
    Special thanks,
    Sadami

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  2. good reminder. I have a donor card in my wallet under my driver's license.

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  3. Thank you for this reminder about the critical need for blood donations.

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  4. Beautiful post, about something so important!

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