( CNN ) -- A Kansas City-area man proposed to his girlfriend during a Royals baseball game this week , after she gave him one of her kidneys earlier this year , according to CNN affiliate KSHB . Taesha Benson donated a kidney to Travis Spire-Sweet just before Valentine 's Day . Spire-Sweet was born with only 25 % of a functioning kidney , and Benson was a perfect match , the station reported . The chances of unrelated people being this close of a match for kidney donation is about 1 in 30,000 , according to the University of Kansas Hospital , where the surgery was performed . Every 10 minutes , someone is added to the waiting list for a donated organ , according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . Some receive the organ they need . But every year , thousands of people die waiting for a donor organ they never receive -- about 18 per day . Here are some other numbers regarding organ donation : . 118,189 : The number of people currently waiting for a donated organ as of Thursday , according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network . 96,262 : The number of people awaiting a kidney transplant as of Thursday . 2,001 : The number of people under 18 on a waiting list for an organ as of last week . 8 : The number of lives one organ donor can save . 4,421 : The number of transplants performed in January and February 2013 . 79 : The average number of organ transplants daily . 65 : The percentage of people on national transplant waiting list over the age of 50 , as of 2012 . 2.3 : The percentage of deceased donors who were Asian as of 2010 . 574 : The number of deceased donors in 2012 who were age 65 or older . 90 : The percentage of Americans who say they support donation , according to Donate Life America , a nonprofit alliance of state teams and national organizations committed to increasing organ , eye and tissue donation . 30 : The percentage of Americans who know the essential steps to take to be a donor , according to Donate Life .
Taesha Benson was a perfect match for boyfriend Travis Spire-Sweet . She donated a kidney to him earlier this year . Spire-Sweet proposed at a Kansas City Royals game this week .