After a slight hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kentucky’s circuit clerks announced that signups are open for the 2022 Donate Life Kentucky High School Challenge. The theme of the challenge this year is “Be a Hero.”
The three-week competition will see which high school club or group can add the greatest number of new names to the organ donor registry or complete the most activities to educate about the important mission of organ, tissue and eye donation.
Donate Life Kentucky High School Challenge has received national awards from Donate Life America for its creativity and success in inspiring registrations.
Any Kentucky club or group of students with a teacher/adult sponsor is welcome to sign up for this community service project at bit.ly/hsheroes22. Signups are due Sept. 30.
“With over 100,000 Americans in need of lifesaving organ transplants, it is vital that Kentuckians register as organ donors,” says Martin County Circuit Clerk Denise Gauze. “Each group of students that signs up for this challenge is already a hero.”
The winning schools will be determined by reaching a target level in a point system based on outreach activities, and another will be determined by the most new signups on RegisterMe.org.
Activities include donor registry drives, making commercials, art, school-wide assemblies and social media outreach. The top of these categories will receive $1,000 prizes.
“High school students can make an incredible impact on this lifesaving mission by educating their peers about the need for more registered donors,” explains Shelley Snyder, executive director of the Circuit Clerks’ Trust For Life.
The Circuit Clerks’ Trust For Life partners with Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates to put on this Challenge and other public education programs across the Commonwealth.
“Right now, 887 teenagers are waiting for a lifesaving transplant. Organ donation and transplantation can impact anyone at any time. Every registered donor gives hope,” said Gauze.
For more information, email info@trustforlife.org or call 866-945-5433.