Join us for Green Shirt Day and National Organs and Tissue Donation Awareness Week

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Approximately 4,400 Canadians require a lifesaving organ or tissue transplant and each year an average of 250 patients die waiting. With your support, we hope to make a lifesaving difference by spreading awareness of organ and tissue donation.

Last year, the Humboldt Broncos tragedy moved and united us as a nation.  The details of this tragic event had an unprecedented impact. In fact, what became known as “The Logan Boulet Effect” inspired more than one hundred thousand Canadians who might not otherwise have done so to register to be an organ donor. 

Logan Boulet – a Humboldt Bronco -- made the decision to register just weeks before the crash, and shared that decision with his parents, and on April 7 he became an organ donor, giving the gift of life to six Canadians in need. 

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Logan’s family continues to share Logan’s story, and to raise awareness across the country. To honour Logan’s legacy, the first annual Green Shirt Day will take place on April 7, 2019.

National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week was proposed by former Liberal Member of Parliament Dan McTeague and enacted through Bill C-202 on Feb. 4, 1997. The intent of the bill was to encourage education and awareness of organ donation.

Show your support by wearing green on April 7 in honour of Logan’s legacy and register your decision to donate online at blood.ca/organs-tissues. With your help, we hope to encourage Canadians across the country to register their decision to become organ and tissue donors and share that decision with their family.