Mayor Donates Kidney To Facebook Friend

Filed in archive Cases , News on April 23, 2010

Social networking has created a technological revolution around the world. Families and friends are being reunited through it. These days, Facebook are keeping people in touch in more ways than one. Do you anyone who doesn't have a facebook account? Even babies have one, created by their proud parents of course.

Now, the mayor of a Connecticut town donates one of her kidneys to a Facebook friend.



East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon donated one of her kidneys to a man she barely knew.

Sanchez, a 44-year-old father whose kidneys were failing because of diabetes, sent out the request on Facebook only hesitantly and on his doctor's suggestion. He worried people might pity him - and certainly hadn't pinned his hopes on finding a donor that way.

He didn't have long to wait. Capone Almon was the first person to respond.

These days technology can do wonders indeed. Good thing that the donor matched the recipient in this case.