“What we know is the majority of Ontarians want to be organ donors, but a very small minority have actually signed an organ donation card.”
That’s according to Mayor Nancy Peckford, speaking about the impacts of Green Shirt Day.
The annual awareness campaign, held on April 7th every year, commemorates Logan Boulet, one of the people killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash tragedy in 2018.
Boulet’s organ donations went on to save six lives, and his family began organizing “Green Shirt Day” every year to encourage more residents to get registered.
“Throughout the month of April,” Peckford says, “council has put a challenge out to all residents here in North Grenville, and I’ve done the same thing as Warden of [the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville], to encourage as many people as possible to go to the website, and it literally takes five minutes to register to become an organ donor.”
You can view the Green Shirt Day website here to learn more and register as a donor.