Cathy Nagle and Talitha Gardner

By Jessica Symonds

This week is Donate Life’s Organ Donor Week.

Donate Life is an Australian Government Initiative aimed at increasing awareness within families of an individual’s wishes in regard to organ donation.

Run by the NSW Central West Division of General Practice Ltd, Donate Life is running a competition which gives participants the chance to win a ‘Heart Warming’ luxury escape to beautiful Hayman Island amongst the Great Barrier Reef.

Many people don’t realise that selecting ‘Organ Donor’ on their license registration is not enough to donate organs. Even once they have registered to be an organ donor, through Medicare Australia, it is still up to the ‘next of kin’ to make the final decision about organ donation.

This is why it is important that you let your family and friends know your wishes in regards to organ donation.

To start this conversation, Donate Life has released free postcards (postage paid) that can be sent to friends and family. Attached to the postcard is an entry form for the Hayman Island Holiday competition.

To enter, visit the Condobolin Aboriginal Service, where there is information about donating life, and postcards, along with competition entry forms.

The competition runs from Sunday 19th February to Sunday 26th.