On behalf of our Board of Trustees and Staff, Southern Eye Bank wishes you the most joyous of Holidays!

Southern Eye Bank of New Orleans


On behalf of our Board of Trustees and Staff, Southern Eye Bank wishes you the most joyous of Holidays!

Be sure to see the DONATE LIFE Rose Parade Float on New Years Day.


For the 32 people honored to ride the 10th annual Donate Life float in the 2013 Rose Parade, their emotional journeys will mirror the highs,and all points in between shared by the national community of organ and tissue recipients, transplant candidates, living donors, and families of deceased donors they represent.

Themed “Journeys of the Heart,” the 2013 Donate Life float will carry individuals aged 12 to 68 from 17 states and Canada who were selected by local organizations for their examples of courage, hope, generosity and advocacy for organ and tissue donation.

The float’s collection of joyful hearts representing the new life made possible by transplantation is grounded by a reverent dedication garden filled with roses bearing personal messages honoring those who make the gift of life possible. The journey peaks with overlapping red and purple hearts representing the love and courage that define humanity at its best. The float’s 200-foot-long, heart-shaped pathway is lined with 72 memorial “floragraph” portraits of deceased donors that will be visible along the five-mile parade route.

Two Floragraph Honorees from Louisiana are honored this year including 19 year old cornea donor, Brittany Cail. Brittany, a Slidell, Louisiana resident, was an employee of Slidell Memorial Hospital. She continues to be an inspiation to those who knew and loved her.

Today, more than 115,000 candidates are on the national organ transplant waiting list. Largely due to the rarity of donation opportunities, only about 28,000 organs are transplanted each year. As a result, 18 candidates die each day for lack of a donor. A single organ donor can save the lives of eight people through organ donation, while a single tissue donor can save and heal 50 others through needed heart valves, corneas, skin, bone, and tendons that mend hearts, prevent or cure blindness, heal burns and save limbs.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}

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