World Kidney Day Function
Every year the World Kidney day falls on s the 2nd week Thursday of the March. In 2025, the world kidney day programe will be on 13th of March, which is a Thursday.
Objective
- Main objective is to be a mental and physical support and motivation to the kidney patients and their families.
- Reducing the financial difficulties of poor kidney diseased members & their families
- Improving the physical and mental well-being of the children & the committee members
- Conducting various workshops, imparting educational knowledge and advice to maintain patients’ psychological and physical health
Target Beneficiaries
- Kidney patients
- Kidney transplant patients
- Kidney donors
- Dialysis patients
- The above 1 to 4 pints families’’ children & members
- World Kidney Day falls on the second week, Thursdays of March every year. There are different world kidney day themes every year and we are organizing a professional lecture session by professional doctors according to the relevant themes. Also every year we have been successfully offering scholarships, free dialysis, dry food packages and etc. We are planning to hold the World Kidney Day function in year 2025 as well, with a new theme.
Scope and Scale
- Our association successfully continued the project of for the last 10 years, supporting 913 kidney patients and their family members and being a motivation for their lives.
- People who are susceptible to the disease, kidney transplant patients and of course healthy people are included in this World Kidney Day Function.
- During Covid-19 pandemic also, we were able to carry on our project with the help of all the donations received to our association.
Key Activities
- Free dispensing of medicines not provided by government hospitals
- Donate bags of dry food to patients,
- Organize health education programs here
- Offer a scholarship worth Rs.1000 for members’ children
- Offer travel allowance worth Rs.1000 to committee members and Rs.500 to family members.
- Donate dialysis voucher for the dialysis patients.
- Appreciate the kidney donors.
- Donate school bags, Exercise books and shoes for kidney patient’s children.
Timeline
Throughout the year from January to December.
Funding Requirements
Expenses for year 2024 for social welfare function is Rs.1,507″00 approximately.
Impact
- Benefits are given to 5000 patients & members of patients
- Providing four dialysis facilities to 100 patients per month
- Providing 150 scholarships for children
- Providing School Accessories for 150 children
- Providing 150,000 rupees insurance per annum
- Providing a bag of dry food worth 5000 rupees twice a year
Partners and Collaborators
SLK Foundation UK
Medical Aid to Sri Lanka
How to Get Involved
- Donations (financial)
- Bank Detail
- Bank Name – Bank of Ceylon
- Bank Branch- Regent street Branch
- Account Name – Samastha Lanka Wakugadu Roginge sangamaya
- Account Number – 72698735
