Make a Difference for Life in Your Workplace and Community
You and your workplace CAN make a difference for LIFE – by joining Tennessee Donor Services in the Workplace Partnership for Life - a nationwide network of employers dedicated to saving lives by raising awareness of the critical need for potential organ, tissue, marrow and blood donors.
Simply sign up your company/agency in the Workplace Partnership for Life - a national Gift of Life Donation Initiative created by the Department of Health and Human Services. The initiative is designed to get corporate America involved in helping communities and individuals by raising awareness of the life-saving possibilities of donation. It’s about giving life. It costs you nothing to join the national effort and yet your involvement will save lives.
Right now, more than 96,000 people in the United States wait for a life-saving organ transplant (more than 4,000 of them reside in Tennessee and Virginia). The sad fact is one third will die waiting because of the critical shortage of donors.
But, you and your workplace can make a difference by raising awareness of the fact that each individual donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation and enhance up to 100 lives through tissue donation.
The workplace is a great environment in which to create awareness of the need for donation. With employers and employees working together, we can literally save thousands of lives. We invite major corporations and unions as well as smaller businesses, associations, government agencies, schools and volunteer organizations to join the campaign. Everyone can contribute to creating a donation friendly workplace.
Through the Workplace Partnership for Life, we can all make a difference. We can build public awareness of the need. We can elect to become donors. We can discuss our wishes with our families, friends, and co-workers. We can encourage others to sign an organ and tissue donor card and indicate their intent on a driver's license. We can make it clear that if something happens to us, we have already made the decision to help someone else live - to give the gift of life.
Please join us. Visit www.organdonor.gov to sign up or to learn about ways you can educate your workforce about donation. Using these ideas or your own, please contact your local TDS office and let us know how your organization will promote donation.
Thank you very much for your participation. Working together we really can make a difference for life. |
