One Million Miracles
It all began with Samantha’s smile.
Samantha Conlan needed a liver transplant. Samantha’s Aunt Barbara Petula decided to get involved: to try to make a difference in the life of a child and to keep a child smiling. Today, because of Barbara and a team of volunteers, Samantha is full of smiles and adolescent energy following her transplant.
You can help COTA give hope and make miracles for children like Samantha.
COTA’s One Million Miracles penny drive can turn pennies into a second chance at life for a child who needs a life-saving transplant. YOU can make a difference.
It only takes a penny …
- The United States Mint estimates there are more than 140,000,000,000 pennies in circulation today. Most of them sit in jars on top of dressers, under car mats, behind couch cushions or in piggy banks.
- Coinstar® states that $10,500,000,000 in loose change is just ‘sitting around’.
- The world penny record was set in June 2005 by Edmond Knowles of Alabama who cashed in 1,308,459 pennies, which was more than 4.5 tons. It took his bank’s counting machine over seven hours to process the deposit. He stored the pennies in four 55-gallon and three 20-gallon oil barrels.
- Approximately 30 million pennies per day (1,040 pennies every second) are produced. Each year, the U.S. Mint produces more than 13 billion pennies.
Every penny raised through the One Million Miracles initiative goes to help COTA patients.
Join COTA to do something to save a child’s life, click here to Register your One Million Miracles activity. You can help make miracles!
Alison Kirk
Giving Hope:
“Hope is not always easy to come by when you have a child who needs an organ transplant. There are sources of hope that bring comfort and strength during these times … and COTA was our source of hope. COTA’s team rallied our friends, family and community together to support and encourage us during every step of Cason’s transplant journey.”
B.G. and Tricia Blakely
