Working to provide second chances in life through organ donation
A local foundation is ramping up its goal to recruit people to become organ donors, as April is celebrated as Be A Donor Month.
Clarence Pilon, shortly after losing his wife Karen in 2014, established the Karen Pilon Organ Donor Awareness Foundation in her honour and to shed light on the matter of organ donation.
Karen passed away in 2014 waiting for a lung transplant as she battled pulmonary fibrosis.
“For us, as a family, it is huge right now,” Clarence said, adding that one of Karen’s brothers is currently in the early stages of battling the same disease and their youngest daughter is a carrier of the gene.