Each April, Donate Life America leads National Donate Life Month, an observance focusing national attention on the need and importance of organ, eye and tissue donation.

National Donate Life Month is about the importance of registering your decision to be a donor, honoring deceased and living donors, and celebrating the lives they saved. It is the generosity of donors and donor families that makes saving lives through transplantation possible.

Donate Life is the national brand for the cause of donation, uniting the hundreds of donation and transplantation organizations; the more than 100,000 patients waiting for transplant; the life and legacy of the more than 1 million recipients in the U.S. and their families; the donor families who say yes in their time of grief; and the more than 170 million people who have registered their decision to be a donor and help others at the end of their life.

National Donate Life Month features an entire month of activities to help encourage Americans to register as organ, eye and tissue donors and to honor those that have saved lives through the gift of donation.

Celebrations include:

• Donate Life Living Donor Day — April 2.

• National Donate Life Blue & Green Day — April 11.

• Blue & Green Spirit Week — April 5-12.

• National Pediatric Transplant Week — April 20-26.

For more information on organ donation, visit https://donatelife.net.

Want more information on how to become a living kidney donor? Visit the National Kidney Registry at www.kidneyregistry.com.