Ride for Belinda to create organ donation awareness
Pretoria family and friends are running races to raise awareness of organ donations.
A Pretoria family and friends are running races to raise awareness of organ donations.
The group of “organ donor warriors” ran a 5km “rookie” race with 15 obstacles at Riversands Farm Village in the Toyota Warrior Race on Saturday.
The warriors included their supporters, live organ donors, transplant survivors, patients awaiting transplants, and those who have lost a loved one awaiting a transplant.
Bernadine Blom, the organiser of the Ride for Hope campaign, which raises awareness of organ donation, said the campaign began after her mother Belinda Blom was diagnosed with renal failure in 2007.
“My father Braam Blom then started the long journey in search of a donor. Repeated tests were done to determine if he was a match.”
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