The Nicholas Green Foundation
A seven year-old boy from California, Nicholas Green, was killed by highway robbers in 1994 while vacationing in Italy with his family. His parents agreed to donate his organs and corneas, which went to seven Italians waiting for transplants.
Nicholas’ Story — The Nicholas Green Foundation
2016年1月1日 · This is my son, seven-year old Nicholas Green, of Bodega Bay, California, who was shot in an attempted carjacking in Italy while we were driving on the main road south from Naples on a family vacation. My wife, Maggie, and I donated his organs and corneas, which went to seven very sick Italians, four them teenagers.
Books — The Nicholas Green Foundation
The Nicholas Effect "The Nicholas Effect" is the story of the shooting of seven-year-old Nicholas Green. It tells how the Greens' decision to donate their son's organs saved the lives of five Italians and restored the sight of two others.
About — The Nicholas Green Foundation
The centerpiece is a majestic bell, thirty inches high, from the Marinelli foundry in Italy, which has been making bells for the papacy for a thousand years. Nicholas' name and the names of the seven recipients are on it, and Pope John Paul II went to the foundry to bless it.
Nicholas Effect — The Nicholas Green Foundation
“But it is clear that Nicholas’ story was the catalyst that changed the thinking of an entire nation.” More broadly, the story sharply increased awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths caused around the world every year by the shortage of donated organs.
Videos - The Nicholas Green Foundation
In it African American donor families and recipients tell their poignant and inspiring stories about organ donation. When MOTTEP named 10 groups that had contributed most to helping transplantation among minorities, the Nicholas Green Foundation was one of them.
My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year
2017年6月14日 · This is my son, seven-year old Nicholas Green, of Bodega Bay, California, who was shot in an attempted carjacking in Italy while we were driving on the main road south from Naples on a family vacation.
The final beat of Nicholas Green’s heart of gold
2017年2月18日 · Some of Nicholas’ recipients were very close to death. One was a diabetic who was almost blind, couldn’t walk without help and was dependent on others. After receiving Nicholas’ pancreas cells, she moved into an apartment of her own for the first time in her life. A 19-year-old got Nicholas’ liver. The day he died, she was in a coma.
Nicholas Effect Ch 1 - The Nicholas Green Foundation
Nicholas thrilled to stories of heroes risking their lives for the common good, was puzzled by the cheap tricks of gods who ought to have known better, and laughed at Cupid's mischief. He was pained by the story of Persephone, imprisoned all winter in the underworld.
An Open Letter — The Nicholas Green Foundation
Italy has turned its sorrow into the most practical benefit possible. immediately after Nicholas was killed organ donation rates soared and went on soaring for 10 years until they are now triple what they were then, a rate of increase no other country has come close to.
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