Young innovators aim to educate teens on organ donation

Students from Co Meath who hope to educate teenagers nationwide about organ donation were yesterday named as the Young Social Innovators of the Year 2013.

More than 20 transition- year students from Eureka Secondary School, Kells, are producing a teaching pack they hope will be distributed to schools this Christmas.

One of the students, Niamh Grall, 16, said: “We found that the reason people don’t become organ donors is because they don’t know enough about the issue... Our pack will help educate people and there will be organ donor cards included in it.”