Chain of Life Challenge
Montérégie
Take on the Chain of Life Challenge at Ski Saint-Bruno with students from École internationale Lucille-Teasdale!
Support our Chain of Life students and flag bearers for Montérégie region. Make a donation to your region, form a team, or join a team. You can also register as an individual. Through this act of solidarity, you are making a tangible contribution to advancing education on organ and tissue donation in our schools.
It's a date on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 10 a.m.
550, rang des Vingt Cinq E (Ski St-Bruno)
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Québec)
Flag-bearer
Students from École internationale Lucille-Teasdale
Hi everyone,
When we discovered Chain of Life in class, we realized how important it was to talk about organ donation, even if it is still a taboo subject. When we are healthy, we don’t always think about how lucky we are. It is only when illness or accidents strike that we suddenly understand how precious life truly is. Chain of Life reminds us to love our body, to take care of it, and to respect life.
This program also led us to reflect on the values that come with it: love, generosity, courage, and living together in harmony. These are not just abstract ideas, they are at the very heart of organ donation. One donor can save up to eight lives, and that simple fact completely changed how we see it. It’s not only about giving a second chance, it’s about offering the possibility to dream, to live fully, to accomplish what once seemed impossible.
At first, we didn’t know much about this subject. It felt distant, maybe even uncomfortable, like something that only adults should worry about. Talking about death in class felt strange. But the more we learned, the more we discovered the immense impact of this gesture. Here in Quebec, nearly 1,000 people are waiting for a transplant in the hope of regaining a full and complete life.
That’s when we understood: organ donation isn’t really about death, it’s about life. It’s a choice that allows our story to continue through someone else. By donating, we can transform our final chapter into someone else’s new beginning. A single donor becomes a hero, a savior, sometimes even a courageous soldier, because they turn an ending into renewal.
What we realized is that the most important thing is to start the conversation within the family. What truly matters is to engage in dialogue with our loved ones, with those we care about, so that our wishes are shared and understood on both sides, and so that our relatives know in advance what the process of organ donation might involve for them. Because organ donation is also a family matter.
Chain of Life isn’t about endings. It’s about continuity, about making sure that life flows from one person to another, that generosity and love endure even after we are gone. And that is exactly why this movement is called Chain of Life.
Proud Chain of Life students from Lucille Teasdale International School and flag bearers for Montérégie region
The Key Links in the Chain of Life
The key links in the chain of life are doctors, nurses, transplant recipients, donor families, teachers, students, distinguished climbers, public figures and many others... who join forces to create a movement uniting all those touched directly or indirectly by organ and tissue donation.
The day of the event
- For the Challenge, you will need warm clothing, a snack and water.
- In case of bad weather, please consult the Facebook event for the Montérégie region for details.
9:20 a.m.
Departure of buses from Lucille-Teasdale School, Brossard
10:00 a.m.
Welcome at Ski Saint-Bruno, speeches by special guests
10:30 a.m.
Restroom break
10:45 a.m.
Departure for the climb
11:15 a.m.
Arrival at the summit – apple 🍎 distribution, tribute to Serge Dessureault (rock), group photo and rallying cry
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Lunch
12:30 p.m.
Departure for the walk in the SEPAQ park
2:30 p.m.
Arrival at Ski Mont Saint-Bruno (bathroom access)
14:45 p.m.
Departure from SEPAQ and return to school around 3:30 p.m.
Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Captain: Christina Marchitello
Goal: $
Christina Marchitello
Team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Ludmila Cerap
Team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Sophie Allard
Team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Williiam Trudel
Team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Alice Mailloux
Team: Awareness Arise
Jean-Sébastien A.R.
Team: Awareness Arise
Alexandra R.
Team: Awareness Arise
Cecilia Amiali
Team: Donors
Enyi Li
Team: Donors
Susan Zhang
Team: Donors
Khloé Seto
Team: Donors
Erika Chung
Team: Donors
Masi Sameem
Team: Fantastic Four
Anes Dahak
Team: Fantastic Four
Hedi Zegal
Team: Fantastic Four
Abtin Nekoui
Team: Fantastic Four
Tiffany Tan
Team: For Da People
Nawa Xu
Team: For Da People
Gael Gonzalez Bastide
Team: For Da People
Samyar Saqafi
Team: For Da People
Ozanne Kamano
Team: For the Angels that left us
Julie-Anne Marion
Team: For the Angels that left us
Salomé Salinas
Team: For the Angels that left us
Fatou Sarr
Team: For the Angels that left us
Nohel Hamdoudi
Team: For Those Who Did not Get an Organ
Mellia Rollo
Team: For Those Who Did not Get an Organ
Sophia De Luque
Team: For Those Who Did not Get an Organ
Nihel Hamdoudi
Team: For Those Who Did not Get an Organ
Mailys Amrane
Team: Happy Trees
Léa-Rose Ng-Raymond
Team: Happy Trees
Matthias Tang
Team: Happy Trees
Ana Sofia Sierra
Team: Health = Wealth
Yuxin Qian
Team: Health = Wealth
Mariana Perera Pinzon
Team: Health = Wealth
Toma Suciu
Team: Health = Wealth
Aimy Nzokou
Team: Heart to Heart
Victor Lafrance
Team: Heart to Heart
Shady Elfaizy
Team: Heart to Heart
Taisiia Bairova
Team: Heart to Heart
Ghita El Habti
Team: Hope Team
Maria Paula Alvarez Becerra
Team: Hope Team
Tianai Gao
Team: Hope Team
Alexandre Berezniakov
Team: Hope Team
Chady Chamam
Team: Hope Team
Mariana Nguyen Leach
Team: Hope Team
Kevin Toader
Team: Life Savers
Alia Simoneau
Team: Life Savers
Alicia Tong
Team: Life Savers
Belal Hassan
Team: Life Savers
Sophie Tkatch
Team: Life Savers
Nathan Somlith
Team: Life Savers
Cedric Chiu
Team: List of Hope
Minh Thuan Nguyen
Team: List of Hope
Maria Filippenok
Team: List of Hope
Isaac Bianchi
Team: List of Hope
Vladimir Bulat
Team: Make a difference
Lixin Ban
Team: Make a difference
Abdelkader Azzi
Team: Make a difference
Oswa Cherbib
Team: Make a difference
Terrence-O. Breton C.
Team: Make a difference
Ana Sofia Espitia Bejarano
Team: No More Waiting
Édison Desjardins
Team: No More Waiting
Camille Vincent-Moreau
Team: No More Waiting
Charlotte Dulong
Team: No More Waiting
Lyly-Rose Lavallée
Team: No More Waiting
Margot Bédard
Team: No More Waiting
Maya Lu
Team: No More Waiting
Khanh Thu Nguyen
Team: No More Waiting
Sophia Elizabeth Cabanillas Yzaguirre
Team: No More Waiting
Laila Al Timimi
Team: No More Waiting
Richard Wang
Team: Organ-isation
Viviane Riel
Team: Organ-isation
Yanni A. I. M. Estevam
Team: Organ-isation
Michael Serban
Team: Organ-isation
Bozica Sakovic
Team: Passion for change!
Wenhao Wu
Team: Passion for change!
Édouard Mercier
Team: Passion for change!
Zoe Marais
Team: People United
Chloe Guercio
Team: People United
Sarai James
Team: People United
Jim Wu
Team: People United
Gabriel Mendez-Gonzalez
Team: Raise your organs!
Vladislav Paciu
Team: Raise your organs!
Lili-Rose Brunet
Team: Raise your organs!
Aiden Roshan Fekr
Team: Raise your organs!
Shainuja Sirirangan
Team: Receivers
Ridhima Manda
Team: Receivers
Justine Larrivée
Team: Receivers
Julie Moon
Team: Receivers
Marianne Chayer-Gagnon
Team: Receivers
Jonathan Afora
Team: Silver Lining
Maria Geres
Team: Silver Lining
Alexia Gravel
Team: Silver Lining
Sieun Hwang
Team: Silver Lining
Meïlie Khung
Team: Silver Lining
Janice Kim
Team: Team of health and life
Kaël Gussi
Team: Team of health and life
Mohamed Adam Chouikha
Team: Team of health and life
Alexandro Vera Tudela
Team: The Doctors
Nicolas Grudev
Team: The Doctors
Christoph Coman
Team: The Doctors
Kenny Tang
Team: The Doctors
Isabella Smolinski
Team: The Doctors
Asanka Bhaggiyadatta Bouché
Team: The Doctors
Diana Grigore
Team: The Doctors
Ilès Bellahcene
Team: The Doctors
Jessica Tanious
Team: The Doctors
Elyes Belaid
Team: The Dream Team
Lucas Serrano Rivera
Team: The Dream Team
Léo Régimbald
Team: The Dream Team
Rafael Vazquez
Team: The Dream Team
Viviane Legault
Team: The Dreamers
Edward Zhang
Team: The Dreamers
Amadou Sy
Team: The Dreamers
Hadia Amiri
Team: The Dreamers
Grace Min
Team: The Fighters
Nelly Emmanuelle Dissigne Sadeu
Team: The Fighters
Smail Bentoumi
Team: The Fighters
Angélique Binda
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Kayla Nguyen
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Anna Sophia Pena Sarria
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Isabella Hernandez Ribero
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Juliette Renaud
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Diana Bihari
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Jiahui Fu
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Laura Catalina Reina Guevara
Team: The Hailing Scalpels
Thomas Coy
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Mohammed Alsharif
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Mehrbod Alidadi
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Nolhan Kenne
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Andrés Delgadillo Valencia
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Ethan Hu
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
David Stefanescu
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Alexandr Guriev
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Omar Osman
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Sebastian Gomez Soto
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Alexandre Guy
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Othmane Alioua
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
M. A.
Team: The Healthy Life Gang
Leila Benyoussef
Team: The Hope of the Wait
Ines Nana
Team: The Hope of the Wait
Wissale Dandoun
Team: The Hope of the Wait
Jade Camille Tchassem
Team: The Hope of the Wait
Rose Cloutier
Team: The Hope of the Wait
Adrien Alfaro-Vegas
Team: The Life-Deliverers
Marek Jean-Mary
Team: The Life-Deliverers
Terrence Charles
Team: The Life-Deliverers
Leo Gonzalez Bastide
Team: The Life-Deliverers
Jian Yun Shi
Team: The Life-Deliverers
Luca Hernandorena
Team: The Livers
Ziad Kabeel
Team: The Livers
Ralph Kaed-Bey
Team: The Livers
Adam Ouaret
Team: The Livers
Imad Elalaoui
Team: The Livers
Marion Côté
Team: The Livers
Marianne St-Onge
Team: The Outsiders
Lucas Bacos
Team: The Outsiders
Maty Diop
Team: The Outsiders
Ludovic Frignon
Team: The Yellow Fellows
Bryan Chen
Team: The Yellow Fellows
Lance-Lawrence Yav
Team: The Yellow Fellows
Haotian Zeng
Team: The Yellow Fellows
Aura Milesan
Team: Time for Change
Jennifer Tran
Team: Time for Change
Maxence L'Allier
Team: Time for Change
Marie-Noëlle Fokam Kamgue
Team: Time for Change
Justine Paiement
Team: Waiting for a chance!
Nasma Taoussi
Team: Waiting for a chance!
Vincent Salation
Team: Waiting for a chance!
Siyu Kim
Team: Waiting for a chance!
Erin Miao
Team: Waiting for a miracle
Badis Sadek
Team: Waiting for a miracle
Joseph Lima
Team: Waiting for a miracle
Hailey Thy Manimtim
Team: Waiting for a miracle
Maya Habiba
Team: Waiting for a miracle
Enyue Li
Team: Walk for the livers
Clément Zhang
Team: Walk for the livers
Flory Marcotte
Team: Walk for the livers
Maria J. C. Acosta
Team: Walk for the livers
Maria Paula Aleman Forero
Team: Walk the wait
Maria Ouhourane
Team: Walk the wait
Dragos-Andrei Pupazan-Grecescu
Team: Walk the wait
Sebastian Ignacio Hamasaki Martel
Team: Walk the wait
Aliks Muddasani
Team: Wellness Walkers
Sadaf Pogorielova
Team: Wellness Walkers
Sanika Negi
Team: Wellness Walkers
Arash Zavarzada
Team: Wellness Walkers
Niloofar Sabbaghziarani
Team: Will to Live On
Manar Dahou
Team: Will to Live On
Andriy Chabanyuk
Team: Will to Live On
Christina Marchitello
3 weeks 5 days agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Luca Carano
3 weeks 5 days agomade a donation of $50 to the region
Ludmila Cerap
3 weeks 4 days agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Maurice Marchitello
3 weeks 4 days agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Jean Gauthier
3 weeks 4 days agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Antoinette Iorio-Maimone
3 weeks 3 days agomade a donation of $25 to the region
Suzanne Gauthier Royal LePage Champlain
3 weeks 2 days agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Jean-Francois Monfette
3 weeks 2 days agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
« Bravo les jeunes! »
Claudine Goulet
3 weeks 2 days agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Guillaume Moreau
3 weeks 2 days agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Ingrid Simen
3 weeks 2 days agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Silver Lining
Cindy Wong O.D. Inc
3 weeks 2 days agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Life Savers
Pierre Aubin
2 weeks 6 days agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
« Bonne chance dans votre marche pour Chaine de vie et les dons d'organes et tissues. »
John-Francis Caporicci
2 weeks 2 days agomade a donation of $50 to the region
« Congratulations to everyone at Lucille-Teasdale International School taking on the Chain of Life challenge! »
Michel Gauthier
2 weeks 1 day agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
« Have a great day together raising awareness and funds for a wonderful cause!! »
Lyne Gauthier
1 week 6 days agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
« Quelle belle initiative, Bravo! »
Sophie Allard
1 week 5 days agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Ambassadors - Chain of Life - Lucille-Teasdale
Francine Metcalfe
5 hours 46 minutes agomade a donation of $100 to the region
« Bravo a toute l’équipe et désolée de m’avoir pu aller marcher »
Distinguished Climber
Coming soon
Mountain Climbing and Waiting for a Transplant: What a Parallel!
Participants in the Chain of Life Challenge carry the flag to the top of a mountain in their region.
Waiting for a transplant is a bit like climbing a mountain. Both require preparation, fortitude, determination, perseverance and, most of all, support — the climber needs strong climbing partners and the person waiting for an organ needs a reliable support network. Both are real challenges. This is why the mountain has become one of the symbols associated with Chain of Life.
By planting the Chain of Life flag at the top of a mountain, we are not only showing our solidarity for organ and tissue donation, but we are also helping send a message of hope to all those waiting for a transplant in Quebec and elsewhere.
Thank you to our partners!
