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March Meeting: A Good Heart (or other Organs) is Hard to Find

Wednesday, 1 April 2015 § 0

This month we were joined by the lovely Jo Cheetham, Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation from the Yorkshire Organ Donation Services Team who was speaking to us with tear jerking honesty about organ donation in view of the WI’s 2014 Resolution to promote this worthy cause.



Jo told us how that final shared action between yourself and your family in donating your organs after death can go on to change and save many lives, whether they be corneal transplants to stop a teenager going blind or the mother of three and toddler who shared your liver both being given a future to look forward to. One donor can save 8 lives and change many many more!


She shared with us heart-breaking true stories of something positive coming out of tragedy where families have donated lost loved ones organs and emphasized the importance of making sure your family knows you wish to donate your organs and of adding your name to the donors register. 



Furthermore, standard myths about donation were dissolved -a diabetic can donate organs, and so can a smoker, the only religion that expressly forbids organ donation is Rastafarianism-who would have thought it!  

Thanks to Jo from all of us here!

You can add your name to the organ donors register here:







March meeting - House of (Cam)Pain

Sunday, 1 April 2012 § 0

Our meeting for March was House of (Cam)Pain, which was focused on the WI's campaigning efforts and how we can all work together to make a difference.
To help us understand more about the resolutions process and how these shape the campaigns the WI creates and gets involved in, we invited along Gillian Swift, Chairman of the Public Affairs commttee at the West Yorkshire Federation.
Gill explains to us how resolutions are put forward, shortlisted, debated and voted on, and how the results go on to form campaigns that the WI as a whole gets involved in.
We heard about past resolutions and how they are still having an impact, and found out what we can all be doing to get involved in the process.
Recently, the WI has been working hard to highlight the importance of libraries, and previous efforts have focused on issues such as domestic violence, legal aid, mental health and prisoners, food labelling, waste, honeybess, fishing .... You name it, the WI has been involved at some level to help ensure that women's voices are heard loud and clear!
It was very interesting to find out just how much influence the WI can have. After all, who can ignore 210,000 women talking to them?!
You can find out more on how the WI is helping to improve lives for all by going to the WI Campaigns and Projects page.

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