SANAVA launched its ‘Save Seven Lives’ project in 2014.  The project sensitises the public about the great need for organ donors – through art – as very few people realise that one donor can save seven lives.

One healthy person can donate up to seven organs – one heart, two lungs, two kidneys, one liver and one pancreas – to help seven people get a new lease of life.

The project was triggered when well-known Pretoria sculptor and member of the Association of Arts Pretoria, Sanna Swart, donated a kidney to a friend, locally known opera singer Rex Negrini, who had been suffering for many years of a kidney disease.