Organ and Tissue Donation: How You Can Help (Part Two)

Part One of this message explains the global need for organ & tissue donation, and today's BlogCatalog "blogathon" on this matter of life and death for millions and their loved ones.

Unfortunately there is no one single website where any global citizen from anywhere can go sign up as an organ and/or tissue donor...let alone and ensure that his or her gifts will go to the people who need them the most.

Now there's an idea...but for now, I will list here the online national organ and tissue registries for every country I could find, and a couple of other relevant sites...Sorry I don't have more, either because I didn't find one yet, or because, alas, they don't exist (and need to!)

Please note the plea to people from all communities of color in the United States!

Thank you for caring!

How Do I Become A Living Donor?
Living Bank
Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide

Armenia
Australia
Canada
Germany
Great Britain
India
Israel
Malaysia
Norway
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Taiwan & Beyond (Tzu Chi Foundation)
United States (OrganDonor.gov). To book a blood donation appointment in the US, please go to givelife.org . People of color in particular suffer and die needlessly because not enough people of color donate blood, other tissues, and organs. To learn more, please visit Help Us Save More Lives on the blood shortage, from MinorityNurse.com.




Umbilical Cord Blood Donation: Registries & Resources

Eurocord International Registry on Cord Blood Transplantation: FAQs
Hema-Quebec
National Marrow Donor Program: How to Donate Cord Blood (has online cord blood registry that works with banks across the US and in Australia, France, Germany, Mexio, Spain, and Switzerland)
NHS (National Health Service) Cord Blood Bank (serves England and Wales)

New Directory Section to Help Bridge the Digital Divide

The Nonviolent Choice Directory now has a section of Free and Low-Cost Internet and Computing Resources (direct URL http://www.nonviolentchoice.info/freelowcostinternet.html). The majority of materially poorer humans, especially in the Two-Thirds World, and disabled humans everywhere lack access to all the advantages that the Internet can bring.

Hope this helps a little; please forgive us for not having the coffers of a Gates Foundation to do more about these (and oh so many other) serious problems!