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Celebrities come together to support the ‘Wall of Life’

 

Top celebrities including Noel Edmonds,  Bill Bailey, Will Carling, David Gower and Trisha Goddard have put their support behind the Wall of Life, an interactive campaign launched by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT).

The Wall of Life (www.walloflife.org.uk) is an online mosaic created from people's photos posted on the site, showing their support for organ donation.  These photos combined make up the image of two-year old Louisa McGregor-Smith whose life was saved by a heart transplant in 2007. Louisa was just five months old.  At least 60,000 people need to upload their photos on to the Wall to build Louisa's image.
 

The Wall of Life has been created as part of a national campaign to highlight the constant need for organs in the UK.  More than 10,000 people currently need a transplant operation, of whom 1,000 – three a day – will die every year waiting for an organ.

TV Presenter Trisha Goddard said:" Knowing that after I'm gone I can help others to have the chance of living a life as blessed and full as mine actually makes me feel very important.  If you have the gift of giving someone else a fighting chance, why not use it?  Sign up now."

Louisa's mother, Samantha added; "We are so grateful that our baby girl was given a second chance and keen that everyone knows the good that comes out of signing up to NHS Organ Donation Register."

For more information about organ donation or to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register, please call the Donor Line on 0300 123 23 23 or visit

www.walloflife.org.uk

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