EVERYDAY NEW YORKERS ARE BECOMING HEROES
Almost anyone between the ages of 1 and 75 can be an eye donor and someday leave the gift of sight to someone who is blind. Even people who wear glasses can be donors and make a difference to someone who needs a sight-restoring cornea transplant. According to The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a non-profit organization serving the Greater New York City Area, there are very few exclusions for eye donation which is why New Yorkers should sign up in the NYS Donate Life Registry and become a hero.
Now it is easier than ever to sign up to become an eye, organ and tissue donor in the Donate Life Registry when you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles or by using your mobile device, laptop or computer. According to The Eye-Bank, hundreds of men, women, and children can be saved from blindness each year with sight-saving cornea transplants made possible with donor eye tissue. By signing up in the NYS Donate Life Registry, you might help them and any number of the 10,000 New Yorkers who are waiting for life-saving organ and tissue transplants.
The Donate Life Registry is fully electronic, so it’s as easy as a click of a button to sign up to become an organ, eye and tissue donor. Just visit The Eye-Bank’s website, www.eyedonation.org, click on the button that says Donate Life, complete the New York State Donate Life Registry Enrollment form and submit. It only takes a minute to someday leave a sight or life-saving gift to someone in need and become a hero. If you provide an email address, a confirmation of your enrollment in the Donate Life Registry will be sent to you via email.
New Yorkers ages 16 or older can sign up in the Donate Life Registry, when getting a new or renewed driver’s license either in person at a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office or when completing forms by mail.
All New York City residents who apply for a free municipal IDNYC card also have the option of enrolling to be an organ, eye and tissue donor by completing the section provided on the application.
Sign up at the DMV
Remember, you can become a hero when you sign up in the Donate Life Registry at the DMV or online at www.eyedonation.org using your mobile device, laptop or desktop. Or for more information, call The Eye-Bank of New York at (212) 742-9000.