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What does it take to put on the U.S. Transplant Games?
See also: The Webcast Team
and Photos from Behind the Scenes at
the Games Webcast
and Getting Ready to Bring You the Games
The U.S. Transplant Games
is a huge event requiring lots of hard work, organization, and careful
planning and execution. The staff of the National
Kidney Foundation deserves a big round of applause for bringing us
all together at this fabulous event!
So...what does it take to put on the U.S. Transplant Games? In
part, it takes:
- 2 years (thousands of hours) of planning and preparation
- 25 National Kidney Foundation staff
- 600 volunteers
- more than 1500 transplant recipients, ages 17 months to 76 years
- 50 medical staff people, of whom 10 were on duty at a time
- 2500 hotel/dorm rooms, many with double occupancy
- 2500 sack lunches every day
- 25 two-way radios
- 60 cell phones
- 10 golf carts
- 40 reams of paper
- 5000 ID hang tags, and
- dedication, enthusiasm, and the Games spirit.
Thanks to Gary Green for this information.
The Games are
over, and NKF staff can finally relax.
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Colleen Horan of the National Kidney
Foundation shares her thoughts on the Games (audio by Bob
Garypie)
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