Happy to announce that RECYCLE ME now has a collaboration with The Swallows Foundation located in South Africa! We are very happy, proud and excited! This August we are going to host music artists and a poet from both Nelson Mandela Bay and Gothenburg at the Kulturkalaset / Culture Festival here in Gothenburg Sweden! On photo Lelethu Mahambehlala, “Poeticsoul”.

Kulturkalaset is providing us with a stage and activity tent, thank you so much for this opportunity!

More info you find here: http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/s%C3%B6k/recycle%20me

 

“The Swallows Foundation SA also known as Isiseko Senkonjane or (ISSA) works as a Development Agency for all forms of the arts, culture and heritage throughout the Eastern Cape in South Africa, seeking innovative solutions for social cohesion and creating platforms for artistic expression.  It seeks to create opportunities and connections nationally and internationally by encouraging intercultural exchange and relations through the arts. The partnership with RECYCLE ME is meant to explore collaborative opportunities on social issues using the Arts and to raise awareness in both Göteborg and Nelson Mandela Bay.” 

– Mr Oyama Vanto

More information about the Swallows Foundation:

http://www.isisekosenkonjane.co.za/

Lelethu Mahambehlala Photo Bantu Mtshiselwa

Kulturkalaset Photo Dick Gillberg

Kulturkalaset Photo Beatrice Törnrös

With every breath I take I think of you.

RECYCLE ME Life, silver lungs neckless for organ donation.

These new lungs I was given.
You who saved my life, I am blessed by your gift.

By signing up as organ donor you can save lives.

To Purchase jewelry: www.recycleme.life

The profit from Recycle Me jewellery will go to science research about organ donation and transplantation. http://gelinfonden.org/in-english/

Photo and Design Pamela Lindgren. All rights reserved © 2016

RECYCLE ME at Gothenburg Culture Festival / Kulturkalaset.
The Swedish Artist ETZIA and Hot This Year together with international guests from South Africa Lelethu Mahambehlala “Poeticsoul” and Asanda Msaki Mvana will be performing on stage. Hishaam, Zibulo Mzongwana and music producer Definition Baroque, Fredrik Stewart Holm.

For further information: http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/…/4179-etzia-och-hot-this-ye…

Göteborgs Kulturkalas / Culture Festival Gothenburg Sweden. Saturday, August 20, 12:00 - 23:00 in activity tent and on music scene http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/program/3787-recycle-me

More information will be available.

Photo Pontus Johansson
Photo Markus Wetterberg

- Expresses what can not be put into words.-
Benita Bünger wearing the BRAVE HEART jewellery Design by Pamela Lindgren for organ donation awareness.

If you would like to contribute to the movement, you can do so by purchasing the RECYCLE ME jewellery at www.recycleme.life
 

The profits from RECYCLE ME jewellery will go to Professor Lars-Erik Gelin Memorial Foundation for Transplant Research. www.gelinfonden.org
 
Photo: Thomas Holm Photography. All rights reserved © 2016
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RECYCLE ME for organ donation now has an official big programme stand at the coming Göteborgs Kulturkalas / Culture Festival in Gothenburg Sweden. RECYCLE ME has also been awarded a music scene for music artist ETZIA together with our international music and poetry friends from South Africa! I am so happy and proud of all of you and your willingness to make this happen! My sincere thanks!

And thank you Göteborgs Kulturkalas.

More updates with information will reach you soon.

Göteborgs Kulturkalas / Culture Festival in Gothenburg Sweden. Saturday, August 20, 12:00 23:00 in active tent http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/program/3787-recycle-me
Göteborgs Kulturkalas / Culture Festival in Gothenburg Sweden and at music scene
http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/…/4179-etzia-och-hot-this-ye…

Kind regards
Pamela Lindgren CEO RECYCLE ME

Photo Pontus Johansson
Photo Markus Wetterberg

Photo and Design Pamela Lindgren.  All rights reserved © 2016

This is Reini Junninen, showing her support for RECYCLE ME in a heart t-shirt!

“I am someone who has studied furniture restoration and blessed with a great boyfriend and an awesome son. Someone who believes that when we are more kind to ourselves and to others, then world will be a better place.” - Reini Junninen

Thanks so much Reini for sharing your photo with us!

Did you know that the heart pumps approximately 101000 times a day? Blood takes only about 20 seconds to circulate throughout the entire vascular system and back to the heart again! Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard-twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting. Amazing!

These facts and some more on
http://www.arheart.com/cardiovascular-…/amazing-heart-facts/

Because the heart is such an amazing organ, we haven't fully learnt to make copies yet, which is why organ donation is such an important issue. Please help spread the word about organ donation importance! Because organ donation concerns us all!

We are super happy to have ETZIA together with Swedish musicians and three South African music artists on stage together on August 20 in Gothenburg Sweden! They are collaborating with RECYCLE ME for organ donation awareness. Stay tuned - more to come!

Photo of ETZIA - Chapter Done from; https://play.spotify.com/track/5vc9C0hgPGMsSyJ5iax9Mc?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

Music from;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vm1VdBQ2pQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnEI_YN5Ho

Photo and design Pamela Lindgren. All rights reserved © 2016

This is Lars-Ola Bligård, he is a researcher at Chalmers University of Technology.
Thank you Lars-Ola for promoting organ donation! All people working on the RECYCLE ME movement are volunteers, working in their free time.

An approximate estimation of how many breaths you take in a lifetime is 500 million. The lungs are complex organs, taking oxygen from the air and releasing the carbon dioxide we don´t need.

It is possible to live with only half of your lungs, but not without both. Therefore it was an important step when the first lung transplant was performed in 1963 and later in the 80ies they developed medications etc. that increased the success rate. As of today, doctors have not found a substitute for these complex organs and are depending on organ donors.

Don´t hold your breath about organ donation, make your wishes known!

Photo and design Pamela Lindgren. All rights reserved © 2016

This is Isabell Lindell Warensce posing for organ donation by wearing the RECYCLE ME LIFE silver liver! In the photo is also her daughter Lou, almost 5 months old, so cute! Thank you Isabell for participating in the RECYCLE ME movement for organ donation!

Isabell is a wife and a mother, when she is not on maternity leave she works as a social worker in an acute home for families and children ages 1-12.

The human liver is incredible with the ability to regenerate and regrow to full size after donating a small part of the giver´s liver!

“Weighing in at around 3 pounds, the liver is the body’s second largest organ; only the skin is larger and heavier. The liver performs many essential functions related to digestion, metabolism, immunity, and the storage of nutrients within the body. These functions make the liver a vital organ without which the tissues of the body would quickly die from lack of energy and nutrients. Fortunately, the liver has an incredible capacity for regeneration of dead or damaged tissues; it is capable of growing as quickly as a cancerous tumor to restore its normal size and function.” Text from http://www.innerbody.com/image_digeov/card10-new2.html
 
While views of organ donation are positive there is a large gap between the numbers of registered donors compared to those awaiting organ donations on a global level.
So remember; make your wishes known, your decision can save lives!

Photo and design Pamela Lindgren. All rights reserved © 2016

This is Mikael Johansson who works as a project assistant at the department of Design and Human Factors at Chalmers University of Technology. He is currently involved in projects regarding the interaction between humans and machines.

By showing his support for organ donation Mikael helps spread the word- organ donation concerns us all! Thank you Mikael!

Working 24/7 as purifier of the human blood, the liver is a busy organ. However, an overdose of i.e. paracetamol or eating poisonous mushrooms can cause the liver to fail. In those cases liver transplant is the only way. Scientists are working on solutions, among others researcher David Hay and his colleagues; follow link for article http://www.crm.ed.ac.uk/…/pluripotent-stem-cell-hepatocyte-…

PS; Did you know that you can donate part of your liver? The recipient gets a piece that grows inside them and your liver grows back inside you. This is mainly used with parents-child, and the parent leaves approximately 20% of their liver.