Each year thousands of California highschool students apply for their first driver license or identification card (ID). They are presented with the opportunity to join the organ and tissue donor registry through Donate Life California.

Many students are unaware of what being a donor means and how they can help their communities by checking “yes” to donation when applying for their license. Providing information to students allows them to make an educated decision.

To schedule a Lifesharing speaker to come to your high school or college class please call 619-543-7225.

A single organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people. Currently more than 104,000 people in the U.S. are on the waiting list for an organ transplant. Nearly 1800 people are on the waiting list for a organ transplant in San Diego and Imperial counties.

Although less widely publicized than organ donation, tissue donation saves or enhances the lives of over a million people in the U.S. each year. Tissue can be donated upon one’s death to others in medical need.