Transplant Games
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Living donors celebrate after the Living Donor Recognition Event at the 2004 Games
The National Kidney Foundation's U.S. Transplant Games is an Olympic-style athletic competition for organ transplant recipients and includes additional events and programs for living donors, donor families and health care professionals.
Hosted in even-numbered years in different cities throughout the country, the Games bring together all of those touched by donation in a tribute to transplantation and those who gave the gift of life.
Programs for Living Donors
Over 200 living donors participated in Games events,
- Living Donor Recognition Event, a celebration of life including tributes, songs, thoughts from recipients and other special activities
- Click here to view Forever Grateful: A Photo Tribute (pps) from the LDRE at the 2006 Games in Louisville, KY.
- Open sharing session for living donors.
- Coffee House, an open mic forum for donor families, recipients, living donors and friends to share stories, poems and songs about how donation has affected their lives
- Cheering on transplant recipient athletes during athletic competitions
- Attending Opening and Closing Ceremonies and other Games celebrations
Games Message Board
Chat with athletes, donor families and team managers on the Games message board!
