PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The world’s largest celebration of life will happen this weekend in Alabama at the Transplant Games. A big group from the Philadelphia Gift of Life program will be there.
The Transplant Games aim to help increase awareness about the need for more organ donors and celebrate life for transplant recipients.
One of the competitors from Delaware will be part of the Philadelphia team.
Onyi Kenine is back at Nemours Children’s Hospital, the place that saved her life.
“When I was 10 months old in 2005, I got a liver transplant done here,” Kenine said.
She’s 20 now, interning at the hospital and about to compete again in the upcoming Transplant Games for the 7th time.
“I love the competitiveness that brings out another side of me that I don’t normally show,” Kenine said.
Kenine will be competing in a number of track and field events and also basketball, tennis and darts.
“The Transplant Games are a phenomenal opportunity to show the public the success of organ donation and transplantation and the need for more people to say yes,” Todd Franzen with the Gift of Life said.