ABC's Extreme Makeover
Home Edition in Suffield, CT
Extreme Makeover:Home Edition requested Donate Life Connecticut's presence at the recent build in Suffield, Connecticut for the Hill Family, because the family had been touched by both organ donation and transplantation. Donate Life Connecticut was onsite June 22 - 28, 2009 to educate crew members, volunteer builders, and spectators about the benefits of organ and tissue donation and the importance of registering your decision to donate on the new online New England donor registry.
Look for green Donate Life bracelets on the wrists of volunteers and spectators throughout the pictures below.
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The Hill Family's Donation and Transplantation Story
Shamia Cauley suffers from underdeveloped kidneys. She received a transplant from her Uncle Craig in 2001 but it didn't take. Just this April, the Hills’ daughter Sonia Hill donated a kidney to her cousin, Shamia. Even in this family of unhesitatingly generous people this seemed like an act above and beyond. Sonia didn’t feel it was even a question; she had to do what she could to save her cousin’s life.
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| Shamia Cauley |
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| Sonia Hill |
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