Take on the Chain of Life Challenge at mont Cascades!

Hi,
I'm Shaun Grenier, a volunteer patrol officer and a volunteer police officer for organ donation transportation in the Outaouais region.  It gives me great pleasure to be the flag-bearer for the Chain of Life Challenge and to represent my region. 

I'm pleased to see that the volunteer police officers of the Canadian Organ and Tissue Donors Association (CODA) are in the public eye this year. In fact, we are one of the vital links in the chain of life  when it comes to organ donation. 

However, this crucial role is little known to the public.  I'm proud to represent not only my region but all my colleagues across Quebec who help save lives! 

In my career, I've been lucky enough to take part in two organ transports. What's more, I firmly believe that the first link in the chain of life is educating our young people about this important social issue.

Please join me on October 13, which is next Sunday  or make a donation to my team : Sureté du Québec - Outaouais.

Thank you!

Shaun Grenier

Hello,

I'm Danny Rail, organ transport coordinator for the Outaouais region.

Since 2019, police officers from the Sûreté du Québec in the Outaouais region have been ensuring the quality and safety of the transport of organs and tissues and medical teams.  

This essential contribution to the chain of life is carried out with remarkable assiduity by our police officers on a voluntary basis. Only available in Quebec, this service has been offered since 1987 in collaboration with the Canadian Organ and Tissue Donors Association (CODA) and Transplant Quebec. 

I would like to extend my warmest thanks to all the police officers in the Outaouais region and throughout Quebec for their exceptional and vital commitment to the cause of organ donation. 

It gives me great pleasure to collaborate with the Chain of Life Challenge in order to raise public awareness about this crucial link in the pre-hospital chain of care, as well as to support Chain of Life and its education mission on organ and tissue donation in schools.

Together, we can contribute to saving more lives!

Our Everest was to pedal more than 5,700 km this summer, from Vancouver to Rivière-du-Loup, as part of a fundraiser for Chain of Life that has raised more than $11,000 up to now.

In addition to discovering fantastic places and people during our adventure, we were able to talk about the importance of organ and tissue donation education and to highlight the importance of taking good care of our health by adopting healthy lifestyle habits, values that are very important to us. Since the Chain of Life project began at the Rivière-du-Loup secondary school in 2007 and we are also from this region, it was very symbolic for us to end our long journey in the Lower St. Lawrence region. 
 
Since we live in the Outaouais region, we are very happy to participate in the Chain of Life Challenge at Mont Cascades on October 15 and we invite you to join us for this great event. As a bonus, we will be able to tell you about some of the wonderful stories of living donors and transplant recipients that were shared with us during our journey!

Rachel Malenfant, nurse
Daniel Soucy, truck driver