Second Green Shirt Day moves online to raise awareness for organ donations, honour memory Logan Boulet

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — While Green Shirt Day might look a little different this year with social distancing, the parents of Logan Boulet are asking everyone to take post pictures of their green shirts to social media and raise awareness for organ donations

This is the second annual Green Shirt Day which honours the memory of Logan Boulet — one of Humboldt Broncos players who lost his life in the deadly crash — and raises awareness for organ donations.

Logan’s organs saved and improved the lives of six people.

It’s #GreenShirtDay and on avg. in BC, 50 ppl sign up daily to become donors w/@BC_Transplant. The event honours @HumboldtBroncos player Logan Boulet. He signed up to be a donor a year before the deadly crash. His organs saved the lives of six people.https://t.co/p6oBc2CsTi

— Sonia Aslam (@SoniaSAslam) April 7, 2020

In a video interview, his mother Bernadine Boulet says Logan approached his father Toby with the idea of becoming a donor before turning 21.

“We think that having that conversation is so important. The conversation is probably as important as the actual registration because, whether it happens to be your son, your daughter, your husband, your mother, having that conversation lets you know that in a time of tragedy you don’t have to make that decision,” she says. “You will already know that and you’ll be able to carry on with your time with that person rather than have to worry about that decision. It just makes it a little bit easier at that time.”

Toby and Bernadine will be visiting their son’s gravesite to read a letter from his kidney transplant recipient.

“Logan is a behind-the-scenes kind of guy. He’s the guy that let’s other people take the glory. He’d be saying ‘This is a lot; this is too much; and it’s not me doing it, it’s our team and it shouldn’t be just me getting the recognition,’ he would be a little overwhelmed I think,” Bernadine says.

On April 7, 2018 Humboldt Bronco Logan Boulet saved 6 lives and inspired Canadians to register as Organ Donors. Today, WEAR GREEN & let’s Inspire one another by registering and telling our family, because we are all in this together! #GreenShirtDay #LoganBouletEffect pic.twitter.com/TSGrAjMSds

— Green Shirt Day (@GreenShirtDay) April 7, 2020

And while many are posting their green shirt pictures with #GreenShirtDay and #LoganBouletEffect, Logan’s father asks for people to get involved if they haven’t already.

“It’s one thing to wear green shirts and be out there and doing your thing, but take the time to register if you haven’t already and be inspired,” Toby says.

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According to the Green Shirt Day website, 90 per cent of Canadians say they will become organ donors, but only 23 per cent actually register. The day is about keeping the conversation going.

“The Logan Boulet Effect is leaving a lasting impression on Canadians. Since 2018, hundreds of thousands have taken the important step of talking with their families about their wish to become an organ and tissue donor, and many are confirming that decision by registering their intent to donate through their provincial organ donor registration system. While in 2018 we estimated over 100,000 Canadians registered in the weeks following the Humboldt crash, Green Shirt Day 2019 has inspired another hundred thousand or more to take action.”

On April 6, 2018, 16 people died and 13 others were injured in the Humboldt Broncos crash.