Charity Curtain Raiser At Brisbane City
Words: Staff Writers
Transplant Australia Football Club will play a special curtain-raiser to this weekend’s PlayStation 4 National Premier Leagues match between Brisbane City and Western Pride.
The charity match at Corporate Travel Management Stadium will see host club Brisbane City donate a proportion of the day’s gate revenue to Transplant Australia.
Transplant Australia is a national charity representing transplant recipients, donor families, living donors and all those touched by organ and tissue donation and transplantation.
Transplant Australia Football Club is a team comprised of exclusively of transplant recipients, those awaiting transplant, and organ donors.
They will take on The AC Medicos, comprised of medics from The Princess Alexandra and Prince Charles Hospitals – the two hospitals serving as the Queensland Centres for Heart, Lung, Pancreas, Renal and Liver Transplantation.
Funds raised will go to ‘The Common Good’, the Prince Charles Hospital Foundation, and help raise awareness of organ donation.
“The purpose of the club is to inspire Aussies to register as organ donors, and to give transplant recipients a goal towards health and physical activity.” Said Matty Hempstalk, Chairman of Transplant Australia Football Club.
He added, “The benefits of sport are well-documented in helping (organ) recipients maintain a healthy body around their transplanted organ, while also providing positive mental and wellbeing outcomes.”
“Transplant Australia has a long heritage of using sport to demonstrate the success of transplantation. The Football Club is a great initiative and will complement our Transplant Games program demonstrating that organ donation works.”
The organisation cites that 1,418 people in Australia are awaiting organ transplants, in addition to hundreds more on dialysis who would also benefit from transplants.
In 2015 there were just 435 viable Organ Donors in Australia, yet those relatively few donors extended the lives of 1,241 transplant recipients.
Transplant Australia Football Club also intend to take their message overseas next year as the club seek to compete at the 21st World Transplant Games in Málaga, Spain.
For more information on Transplant Australia please visit their website - transplant.org.au
PlayStation 4 National Premier Leagues 2016 - Round 16
Brisbane City FC v Western Pride FC
Saturday, July 2 | 6:30PM
Corporate Travel Management Stadium, Brisbane
Charity match between Transplant Australia FC & The AC Medicos commences at 5:00PM
Entry - $10 Families, $5 Adults, $2 Children
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