ZRF is an Official Charity to Melbourne Victory Football Club

Tuesday 29th September 2009 1:54pm

Hair Net Day Victory and Allan

Grant Brebner MVFC Overseas Player becoming an organ donor on Zaidee’s Rainbow Hairnet Day 2009 at the Grocon site for the new rectangle stadium at Olympic Park.

Allan tossing the coin

Allan tossing the coin for the game in which the MVFC wore the laces 2009.

Melbourne Victory has teamed with Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation for 2009/10 and will don a slightly different look when it hosts Wellington Phoenix at Etihad Stadium this Sunday (kick off 3pm).

Melbourne Victory players will wear rainbow coloured shoe laces, a concept created by Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation, as part of the fight to generate greater awareness for organ and tissue donation.

Zaidee Rose Alexander Turner was only seven when she died from a cerebral aneurism and wanted to ensure that her healthy organs and tissue were used to help other sick children.

Her wish was granted and it’s the Foundation’s hope that her actions will inspire both children and adults to register on the National Donor Registry.

Melbourne Victory CEO Geoff Miles said the club was delighted to welcome Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation on board as an official charity partner of the club for 2009/10 and urged all Melbourne Victory fans to register as organ donors.

“Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation and the awareness of organ and tissue donation is a wonderful cause and one that we as a club are proud to be part of,” Miles said.

“Zaidee’s gift of her organs and tissue allowed other children to have another birthday, whereas one in five people on the transplant waiting list may never get that chance if people do not become registered donors and discuss organ and tissue donation as a family.

“For those people on the transplant waiting list, the rainbow symbol offers them hope and at the end of their rainbow is an organ or tissue to improve or save their life.”

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