Kids World Transplant Journey Kids on the Block LifeShare Of The Carolinas offers free performances of the puppet show, The Kids on the Block. The show features puppet characters Melody James, Michael Riley, and Alex Landry. Alex has had a heart transplant. He talks to his friends Michael and Melody about why he needed one and how he feels now. LifeShare is pleased to make the Kids program free to the children of our community.
Doctors really do carry organs to be transplanted in picnic coolers.
There are over 2,000 kids under 18 on the waiting list for organ transplants. The youngest child to ever get a heart transplant was three hours old. The oldest kidney to be transplanted is now 95 years old. The donor was 65. By the year 2010, one out of every 20 people will need a transplant.