America’s
Got
Talent
Stars:
Detroit
Youth
Choir
Perform
for
MOTTEP
DETROIT
- If you
haven’t
had a
chance
to see
The
Detroit
Youth
Choir,
“America’s
Got
Talent”
stars
and our
hometown
superstars
perform
live,
this
Sunday
will be
your
opportunity
to
experience
a live
soul-stirring
performance.
The
choir
will
perform
at the
10th
annual
Minority
Organ
Tissue
Transplant
Education
Foundation
Program (MOTTEP),
Gospel
Concert,
“The
Sounds
of
Saving
Lives
Concert.”
This
will be
a great
opportunity
to learn
about
the
MOTTEP
organization
while
enjoying
entertainment
by some
of this
city’s
young
and
talented
superstars.
“Our
2019
theme
has been
“Let’s
Talk” to
inspire
more
discussions
about
the
crucial
need for
organ
and
tissue
donation
in
multicultural
communities,”
said
Remonia
Chapman, Gift
of
Life’s
community
outreach
manager
and
director
of Gift
of Life
MOTTEP.
“For ten
years
Gift of
Life
MOTTEP
has
provided
information
and
inspiration
about
the
message
of organ
and
tissue
donation
at our
Sounds
of
Saving
Lives
concert.
This
free
concert
will
feature;
the
award-winning
Detroit
Windsor
Dance
Company,
Sam
Pickens,
Arnesia
Jones,
The
Voices
of
Second
Canaan
and The
Detroit
Youth
Choir.
The
concert
will be
emceed
by
Sounds
of
Saving
Lives
will be
emceed
by Bobby
Howard,
a
25-year
kidney
recipient,
Director
of the
Multicultural
Donation
Education
Program,
LifeLink
of
Georgia
and
Terra
DeFoe, a
donor
mother
and
Senior
Advisor
to Mayor
Mike
Duggan
on
Faith-Based
and
Community
Initiatives.”
Nearly
3,000
people
in
Michigan
are
waiting
for a
life-saving
organ
transplant.
More
than 46%
of those
waiting
are
minorities,
who
suffer
from
hypertension
and
diabetes
at a
disproportionately
higher
rate.
“It is
critical
that we
encourage
conversations
about
the
importance
of organ
and
tissue
donation
in order
to
positively
impact
our
communities,”
said
Remonia
Chapman,
Gift of
Life’s
community
outreach
manager
and
director
of Gift
of Life
MOTTEP
Founded
by Dr.
Clive O.
Callender,
the
organization
has been
aggressively
striving
to help
solve
the
number
one
nation-wide
problem
in
transplantation
– the
shortage
of
donors.
The
first
and only
organization
of its
kind,
MOTTEP
has
educated
communities
worldwide
on
minority
organ
donation
and
healthy
lifestyles
that can
prevent
the need
for
transplants.
Minorities
have had
a
history
of being
reluctant
to
donate
due to
multiple
factors:
lack of
awareness,
religious
beliefs,
medical
distrust,
fear of
premature
death
and
racism.
Data on
the
growth
in
African
American
donation
rates
were
analyzed
from the
United
Network
for
Organ
Sharing
(UNOS)
statistics.
National
Donor
Sabbath
Observed
two
weekends
before
Thanksgiving,
seeks to
educate
faith-based
communities
about
the need
for
organ,
eye and
tissue
donors.
The Free
“Sounds
of
Saving
Lives”
Gospel
Concert
will be
held on
Sunday,
November
10, at 4
pm at
Hartford
Memorial
Baptist
Church,
18700
James
Couzens.

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