COTA for Aaliyah Beganovic

With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant families 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-related expenses. In Fergus Falls, volunteers are raising funds for COTA in honor of transplant patients like local infant, Aaliyah Beganovic.

Aaliyah is the daughter of Amanda and Almir Beganovic. Born in 2016, Aaliyah was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia. The doctors at the U of M Masonic Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have recommended a life-saving liver transplant. An estimated $25,000 is being raised by Fergus Falls volunteers.