 Lights and Flag Show Support for Organ Donation
Cook Children’s Medical Center – Fort Worth will light up in the blue and green colors of Donate Life from April 20-25 to help raise awareness for organ donation. April is National Donate Life Month, which encourages people to register as organ, eye and tissue donors. More than 100,000 people in the United States are awaiting a transplant. Cook Children’s partners with the procurement organization LifeGift. A ceremony at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22, will honor patients who received donated organs and deceased patients who became organ donors. A 12-year-old kidney recipient is planning to share his story at the ceremony, taking place in the Meditation Room on the first floor of the south tower. Donors at Cook Children’s have provided kidneys, hearts, livers, lungs and other organs for transplant surgeries across Texas and beyond. Their first names and ages are etched into a memorial plaque near the prayer garden. From 2023-2025 at Cook Children’s there were 25 organ donors resulting in 84 organs transplanted, as well as 19 tissue donors. “As their own hearts are breaking, some families choose courage, generosity and kindness, and mold their searing pain into something that can do good for others,” chaplain Brianna Benzinger said at the 2025 flag raising. “We give thanks for their bravery, their gift, their love in action.” Go online to register as a donor or stop by the Donate Texas table from 1-3 p.m. on April 22 in Camelot Court Light to learn more. | 
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