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Team MO-KAN Participates in the 2018 Donate Life Transplant Games of America!
Sixty-seven members of Team MO-KAN recently returned from participating in the 2018 Donate Life Transplant Games of America, August 2 – 7, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The team consisting of nineteen transplant recipients, nine donor families, two living donors and thirty-seven supporters took part in the bi-annual celebration of life with the goal helping increase the need for more organ, eye and tissue donors, while celebrating the lives of their donors.
Recipients as well as two living donors brought home a total of thirty-three medals, including twelve gold, thirteen silver and eight bronze medals over the course of the six-day competition. Including winning the Gold Medal in Basketball for the first time in team history.
Team members would like to thank the following partners for their continued support: Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, Breanne Conterio Foundation, Calvary University, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City Life Insurance Company, Local Union #124 I.B.E.W., Midwest Transplant Network, Omega Designs, Paxton Creative Resources, Piper Middle School, Kansas City TRIO, Starr Homes LLC, Saint Luke’s Health System, and Superior Title KC.
For the full press-release, read here.
For more information on joining Team MO-KAN, contact us at info@teammokan.org.
For information on becoming a financial partner of Team MO-KAN, please contact us at (816) 304-4914 or email Chris Paxton at sponsors@teammokan.org.
Save the Date for the upcoming Donate Life Transplant Games of America!
We are pleased to announce the rescheduled dates of the 2020 Donate Life Transplant Games of America have been announced. The previously scheduled 2020 Donate Life Transplant Games of America in July of 2020 will now be held July 16 – 21, 2021 in the Meadowlands, New Jersey.
Please note as announced the Transplant Life Foundation will continue to brand the Games in July of 2021 as the 2020 Donate Life Transplant Games of America.
Be sure to check back often as more information becomes available for the upcoming Donate Life Transplant Games of America.
For more information on joining Team MO-KAN, contact us at info@teammokan.org.
For information on becoming a financial partner of Team MO-KAN, please contact us at (816) 304-4914 or email Chris Paxton at sponsors@teammokan.org.
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Our Mission
To raise awareness of the life-saving importance of organ, corneal and tissue donation through the lives of our donor families, living donors, and organ, eye and tissue recipients and those awaiting transplantation in the states of Kansas and Missouri. To increase the number of individuals registering to be organ, eye and tissue donors in Kansas and Missouri by participating in local and regional awareness events promoting organ, eye and tissue donation.
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Team MO-KAN
626 NE Clubhouse Drive
Lee’s Summit, MO 64086
Phone: (816) 304-4914
info@teammokan.org