10-YEAR-OLD'S LIFE SAVED THROUGH SAVE 1 PERSON NEWS BREAK ALERTS.

London - We never really know the impact our actions can have on other people.

Such was the case when a Save 1 Person News Alert posted on Vos Iz Neias resulted in a London woman donating a kidney to a ten year old Israeli girl.

The story begins this past November when Vos Iz Neias carried a CBS news story about Richard Woontyler, a Brooklyn father of eight who was and still is in desperate need of a kidney transplant.  While many who read the story may have been moved to comment or say prayers for Woontyler, Tzivia, a London mother of five decided to give the ultimate gift, by offering to donate her kidney.

Not only was the London woman unable to donate her kidney to Woontyler since United States insurance would not cover the costs of a kidney donation from a British donor, she was unable to donate a kidney to a specific recipient in England as British law only allows for directed donations between relatives.  A suggestion to donate a kidney in Israel brought about the ultimate match as Tzivia’s kidney was found to be a match for a ten year old Israeli girl.

“The seed of inspiration was sown nine years ago,” said Tzivia in an exclusive interview with VIN News.  “My niece was born with various organ issues and I offered to donate to her.  In the end it wasn’t necessary, but over the years I googled to be placed on some sort of kidney donation registry, but there is none in the UK.  In November, VIN ran an article asking people to be tested to donate to a father of eight in the States.  I clicked the link and said ‘I’m interested.  Test me.’”

The transplant, which occurred on March 3rd,  was successful with both the donor and recipient are doing well.  Tzivia plans to return to London on Wednesday and resume her Passover cleaning.

VIN News is grateful for the part it played in this  and shares much of the credit with Lauren Finkelstein of Save1Person.org http://save1person.org/ (an organization that highlights one person in the media weekly who needs immediate, emergency, medical help and then asks the respective audiences to save that life) who was responsible for getting CBS News to carry the initial story about Woontyler.

“I got in touch with Ben Mevorach, news director at 1010 WINS,” said Finkelstein.  “Being that it was close to Chanukah I said to him ‘let’s create a miracle’, in the hopes that WINS would carry Richard’s story.  He emailed me back saying ‘Miracle, on the way!’ and he sent a reporter to cover the story of Richard Woontyler.”

“In the blink of an eye, the miracle went from Brooklyn, to London to Israel.  You just never know what can happen.” 

Media can destroy or media can build and create.

At Save 1 Person, we seek to harness the power of the media to save and to rebuild the lives of those in need of help one person at a time.

How do we do this? Simple. The answer is in the power of numbers. The more people who are able to learn about a person in need through a variety of media outlets (TV, radio, Internet and print) the more likely somebody will be alerted who is able and willing to help.

Imagine, for example, that Sally, a mother with five children, has Leukemia and needs to find a person suitable for a bone marrow transplant immediately or she will die within weeks. How is she more likely to get the help she receives? If the local newspaper in the Illinois town she lives in runs an article about her, only 30,000, 40,000 or even 50,000 people would be alerted to her need for a donor. But what if Sally's story reaches people living in cities throughout the U.S. and the world by appearing as a news break on television and radio networks in major media markets across the globe. Needless to say, the more people that are aware of Sally's plight, the more people are likely to get tested and the more likely Sally is to find a match.

Why is one person highlighted? Because when you help one person to live what that person contributes to the world can change the course of history. Will you join our media campaign to save lives?

 Save 1 Person. Save The World.

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