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In Missouri and across the U.S., Americans are celebrating April as Donate Life Month. Donate Life America is encouraging people to share the message of donation by wearing DLA’s colors for Blue & Green Day on Friday, April 19. Donate Life Missouri, as a partner of DLA, is hosting its second annual Blue & Green Day Virtual Fashion Show.

On April 9, 2013, Gift of Hope, the organ procurement organization serving the northern three-fourths of Illinois and northwest Indiana, will present an honorary plaque of recognition to Memorial Medical Center (MMC) in Springfield, IL for their outstandi

Meet Jasmine. She works in the Donor Services Center at the Columbia, MO office. As a Family Services Coordinator, she offers donor families support and information during the eye donation process. Working with so many donor families has inspired her to take control of her health and pursue her dreams of travel. Later this spring, she’s going on a trip — a cross-country cycling trip from New York City to San Diego, to be exact. Jasmine decided to undertake the journey as “a full transformation, physically, emotionally, and spiritually,” one impressive goal of which will be 90 pounds of weight loss. “My education has been interrupted this semester due to weight gain and health issues stemming from that,” Jasmine said. “So there is no time like now to heal my body through exercise, better eating, and fulfilling my dream to cycle through the United States.” 

Location Will Assist Area Hospitals and Support Local Donor Families and Cornea Recipients

Hutchinson, Kan. (October 16, 2012) – This past year, 339 Kansas cornea transplant recipients, including 49 in South Central Kansas, escaped a lifetime of blindness thanks to the generosity of their eye donors, the work of Heartland Lions Eye Banks (HLEB), and the support of medical professionals in the Hutchinson area.

Approximately 56% of individuals on the national organ transplant list are minorities. Right now, 64,000 minority patients are waiting for life-saving transplants, and thousands more require life-enhancing tissue, bone and corneal transplants.

The numbers are in! Thanks to the support of generous financial donors like you, Heartland Lions Eye Banks and our parent organization, the Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation, helped more people than ever before this past fiscal year!