With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant patients are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure.  The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) is a national charity dedicated to organizing and guiding communities in raising funds for transplant-needy patients.  In Marysville, volunteers are raising funds for transplant patients like local woman Solana Cortez. 

Born on July 13, 1981, Solana was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, and doctors at Stanford University Hospital in Stanford, California recommended a life-saving double lung transplant.  An estimated $60,000 is being raised by Marysville volunteers.