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PROCLAMATION
"DONATE LIFE MONTH"
Each year the number of organs, eyes and tissues donated for transplant falls
increasingly short of the growing need.
Public Education about organ, eye and tissue donation is crucial because the number of
men, women and children in the United States waiting for an organ transplant is more
than 100,000.
2,200 people in the Pacific Northwest await an organ transplant, and thousands more
await a tissue or cornea transplant.
One organ, eye and tissue donor can save or enhance the lives of more than 50 people.
Even Burke of Ashland, Oregon saved three lives through organ donation, restored sight
to two people through cornea donation, and gave the gift of improved mobility to dozens
of others through tissue donation in March 2005.
All Oregonians have the power to donate life by signing up as organ, eye and tissue
donors.
All Oregonians at least 15 years old are encourage to sign up on the donor registry
with a "D" on their driver's license/permit or ID card, or going to
www.donatelifenw.org and to share their decision with their family.
Donate Life Northwest is a nonprofit agency whose mission is to save and enhance
lives through the promotion of organ, eye and tissue donors.
Donate Life Northwest will promote National Donate Life Month during April to
increase the number of Oregonians signed up as organ, eye and tissue donors.
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council and Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of
Ashland, hereby proclaim April, 2009 as:
"Donate Life Month"
and encourage all Ashland residents to join in this observance.
Dated this ih day of April, 2009.