August 8, 2018
August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month and in honor of that, Thornton Township recently took nearly 100 employees and summer program students to the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue
Donor Network’s Wave Away the Wait event at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. Photo Credit: Thornton Township
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SOUTH SUBURBAN TOWNSHIP WANTS TO DISPEL COMMON ORGAN DONATION MYTHS
August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month and in honor of that, Thornton Township recently took nearly 100 employees and summer program students to the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network’s Wave Away the Wait event at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. “MINORITY COMMUNITIES ARE OFTEN IN NEED OF ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATIONS BUT WE CAN ALSO HAVE THE LOWEST NUMBER OF DONORS. WE WANTED TO BRING AWARENESS TO THIS BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES THE REASON WE DON’T DONATE TO THE LEVEL THAT WE COULD IS THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF MYTHS ON ORGAN DONATION.” ERNST LAMOTHE JR. COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER FOR THORNTON TOWNSHIP