A life-long battle with Type 1 Diabetes left Arlinda Griffin praying for a gift, from an unknown hero. She would later receive her gift of life, a life-saving kidney and pancreas transplant.
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Home Cook Heroes provides a unique opportunity for community groups to support Gift of Life Howie’s House by providing home cooked meals for transplant patients and their families.
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“I felt like I’d been resurrected because of my transplant. I was renewed – from sick to healed. God led me through it.” — Diane Scheuer
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Christina’s Lupus led to kidney failure and an eventual kidney transplant from her husband. Post-transplant, the couple was able to have three beautiful children.
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Sheila spoke to her church congregation in hopes that a living donor would come forward. Twelve people were tested in an effort to save Sheila’s life through living donation.
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Michael Mania Jr. didn’t know what to say. For the first time, he was meeting the parents of the woman whose lungs draw his breath. Her death, a tragedy for one […]
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As Arlinda Griffin stood alone on stage, singing a gospel hymn, and Mary Smith sat in the audience, fighting to hold back tears, no one could have guessed at the […]
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A perfect pair, Fernando Malpica was able to give his girlfriend, Marleny Jimenez, the greatest gift of all: the gift of life!
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HARRISBURG – Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the steps of the Capitol this morning. They say that at the end of the day, this is all about saving lives. The […]
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Time is ticking on the ability for advocates for all kinds of causes to get action on bills important to them before the sun sets on the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s […]
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