Thank you to Karen!

I've been wanting to showcase some of the tiny-but-fabulous team of people behind the scenes who help me make the LYD Project work and have finally had the ideal opportunity today to begin!Karen Mills is the wonderful person who, many months ago, volunteered to take on the time-consuming task of logging every single duck that is reported as found from around the world. Karen logs each one onto the world map, along with any message received from its finder. She also helps out as a second admin on the LYDP Facebook group, which is also a big help to me!Karen become involved with the project when she heard about it last summer. She had been online friends with Clare Cruickshank (in whose memory it was set up) and they both attended the same specialist hospital for cystic fibrosis treatment.Karen's life was saved on 23rd February 2014 as the result of a wonderful lady who had signed the organ donor register - and her life has been completely transformed as a result, including getting married to her husband, Glen, just 3 months after the surgery. You can read more about Karen's life-saving transplant in an online article from the Colchester Gazette.Yesterday Karen celebrated her second chance at life, and remembered the person who made it possible, by releasing a flock of her hand-made felt ducks, including one dedicated to her "donor angel", at Colchester zoo. You can read today's newspaper article about this below:Thank you Karen for all your hard work and here's wishing you a wonderful year ahead xxx