Loren and Monica Kersting are spearheading an effort to earn a Guinness World Record for signing up the most organ donors in an eight hour period. The founders of the Alexa's Hope charity need to top 4,135 organ donor signups for the record. They make their run at the record from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 23 at the Fargodome, the Fargo Air Museum and the Coliseum. David Samson / The Forum
FARGO - Monica Kersting is out to set a Guinness world record and she needs at least 4,136 people to help her do it.
The West Fargo woman leads the “Give to Live” challenge drive to sign up more than 4,135 people as organ donors in North Dakota in eight hours.
To do that, Monica, her husband, Loren, and a couple hundred volunteers will have to process every new organ donor’s paperwork in less than 7 seconds – at least eight a minute.
The Kerstings, who also founded Alexa’s Hope, an organization dedicated to ending the need for waiting lists for organ transplants, say the mass sign-up in Fargo on Nov. 23 will help toward that end.
Alexa’s Hope is named after Monica and Loren’s daughter, Alexa Kersting, who died in 2004 at the age of 14 while awaiting a double-lung transplant.
“I just thought it would be a great way to raise awareness, and to kind of really bring that need to the forefront,” Monica Kersting said. “It’s the kind of event that people get excited about. It creates a lot of buzz. That’s what we need to make people more aware.”
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