Would you accept a donated organ to save a loved one?
Would you give that same gift of life to help several others?
What is organ and tissue donation?
- Organ donation is when you decide to give an organ to save or transform someone else’s life.
- Thousands of lives in the UK are saved or improved each year by organ donation.
- You can donate some organs while you are alive (living donation). However, most organ and tissue donations come from people who have died.
Organs that can be donated after someone has died include heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, liver and small bowel.
Tissues such as heart valves save the lives of children and babies needing heart surgery, and adults with damaged heart valves.
Bone can help people undergoing hip replacement operations and skin can help treat burns.
It’s your choice whether you want to be an organ and tissue donor when you die. It’s important to share your decision as your family will be expected to support it.
Red Sky Foundation has pledged to help raise awareness for organ and tissue donations, for children and adults.
If you or someone you know needs support, we can help in so many different ways:
- Free unlimited counselling service: If you have been affected by organ donation in any way, shape or form, whether it’s a loved one who is waiting for a transplant or yourself, you can use our free unlimited counselling service to talk things through. Click here to find out more.
- Financial support: If you need to travel regularly for appointments, need to pay for accommodation while visiting your child in hospital while they wait for their transplant, you can apply for a grant.
- Investing in ground-breaking technology and machinery to help with the retrieval of organs from abroad to widen the pool of availability.
- Funding organ retrieval costs to bring organs back to the UK for people who desperately need them.
'THE CALL'
Red Sky Foundation and Fujifilm have collaborated to shine a light on the talented Photographer and Masters Student, Debbie Todd, to raise awareness and start discussions about child organ donation and organ transplant.
Coinciding with Organ Donation Week, which runs from Monday, September 18, 2023 – Sunday, September 24, 2023, the exhibition aims to raise awareness on the importance of organ donation.
The Call explores the subject of organ donation through both the children waiting and children who are post-transplant and not forgetting the ones who never got the call.
The stories and images below relate to the children in the images and their families, who have been deeply affected by organ failure, organ transplant and child loss.
