CREDITON Parish Church is currently lit up in pink each evening, along with other public buildings in the country, in support of Organ Donation Week which runs until October 2.

Electrician Jo Ward was asked to light up the church by Catherine Meredith whose daughter Sarah is waiting for a liver transplant.

Catherine told the Courier: “Raising awareness like this is our best chance of helping the 7,000 terminally ill children and adults on UK transplant lists.

“My own young daughter, Sarah Meredith, who has Cystic Fibrosis has now been waiting for a liver for 15 months.

“Anyone can need a lifesaving transplant at anytime, but a lack of donor organs is a major problem... thousands don’t make it.”

Anyone who becomes an organ or tissue donor can choose either some or all of their organs or tissue.

Organ donation gives a person the opportunity to live on in up to nine lives, always gratefully remembered.

For more information visit: www.organdonation.nhs.uk .