Raffles-KDF Charity Golf 2012
Raffles Country Club (RCC) is organising its annual charity drive to raise funds for the needy and less fortunate in the society. This year, RCC has included KDF in the charity golf event that will be held over two days on Saturday 7 July 2012 and Sunday 8 July 2012. The par-72 Palm course which is featured in this event, is designed by world-renowned golf designer Robert Trent Jones Jr.



If you are interested in participating, please click here to download and fill up the response form.

For any enquiries regarding this event, please contact Ms Samantha Png at 6559 2650 or email Samantha.png@kdf.org.sg.

Pledge for Kidneys, Pledge to Save Lives
Did you know?
   1. Diabetes and high blood pressure are the leading cause of end stage kidney disease in Singapore.
   2. The Straits Times health alert article published in February 2012 reported that at least 1 out of 3 Singaporeans will develop diabetes by the time they are 69.

19,216 people have started to make changes to their lifestyle by pledging the following:

Make your pledge today. Click here.

KDF-NUS Research Fund
The Research Fund has been a programme that has been ongoing to find a cure for and prevention of kidney failure due to diabetes. The programme has recently managed to make headway at the National University of Singapore with a team of two NUS researchers – Dr Gan Shu Uin and Professor Lee K O, under the leadership of Sir Roy Calne, a pioneer in organ transplantation. Together with the collaborators in Egypt, the research team recently had some surprising success using human cells to cure diabetes in mice.

What comes after? Read more to find out what else is in the pipeline for the KDF-NUS Research Fund!

Adopt-A-Patient
At KDF, we focus on the needy patients stricken with kidney failure in the society. Our patients form the lowest 10% of the income group in Singapore. Even within this 10%, we have patients who are unable to support themselves financially.

The Adopt-A-Patient programme targets this specific group of patients. These patients can barely get by with what little they have, especially when they have other family members to support. In drastic cases, patients have zero household income and depend only on public assistance. Even with medical insurance, many of them are still unable to afford the subsidised dialysis fees provided by KDF. Others do not even have the benefit of insurance to cover the costs of their fees.

For more information on our Adopt-A-Patient programme, please contact Ms Samantha Png at 6559 2650 or email Samantha.png@kdf.org.sg.

To make a donation, please click here.

To read more about Adopt-A-Patient, please click here.

Atacama Crossing Charity Drive
Ms Felicia Ong is one of the competitors of the 4 Deserts; the world's leading rough-country endurance footrace series where competitors will race in the most inhospitable climates and formidable landscapes, carrying their own equipment and food and are only provided with drinking water and a place in a tent each night to rest. Joining the Atacama Crossing held in March 2012 as a first-time 4 Deserts competitor, she is making this milestone of her life more memorable and meaningful by adopting KDF as her beneficiary for her fundraising efforts.

Aiming to raise $10,000 for KDF, she believes that this fundraising project is her way to help KDF in its mission to provide subsidised dialysis treatments and medication for their needy patients.

To support her cause and make a donation, please click here. For more information on the Race and her preparations, please visit http://feliciawrites.wordpress.com.

For any enquiries on this fundraising event please contact Ms Zahara Ibrahim at 6559 2652 or email at zahara@kdf.org.sg

The KDF-NUS Research Fund
Since 2007, KDF has been supporting Research Work in finding a cure for Diabetes Mellitus, which accounts for more than 50% of new kidney failure cases each year. Every dollar donated to the KDF-NUS Research Fund has been approved for a dollar-for-dollar matching grant from the government. The matching grant from the government would be endowed in perpetuity, creating income annually for the Research Fund. For more information on the Research Fund, please contact Ms. Tan Chieu Fern at 6559 2643 or chieufern.tan@kdf.org.sg

To make a donation, please click here.

To read more on The Research Fund , please click here

2011 Venhonia Charity Drive
Golden Watch Gold & Jewellery has launched 2011 Venhonia Charity Drive!

The first 200 donors who donate $68 and above through "Venhonia Charity Drive" on our website will be able to redeem a gold-plated Venhonia Medallion - Year of the Dragon.

Your donation will go a long way towards helping our needy patients, and we look forward to your support for our cause! For more information, please contact Ms. Alina Tee at 6559 2651 or alina.tee@kdf.org.sg

To make a donation, please click here.

2011 KDF Charity Icon "Golden Dragon"
For this Lunar Seventh Month celebration, KDF's Chinese Community Committee presents to you KDF's 2011 auspicious Charity Icon, the "Golden Dragon" named after a famous Chinese idiom that originated from a Tang Dynasty poem. According to the "Chinese Idiom Dictionary", the dragon horse; a horse which looks like a dragon signifies a healthy and vigorous spirit of life. Even in the face of danger or uncertainty, an optimistic energetic spirit is still present in this mystical creature. The "Golden Dragon" projects vigour, health, sturdiness and good luck. The fine details of the dragon scale, whiskers, horsehair showcases the superb workmanship of this statue. Symbolizing progress, the "Golden Dragon" also represents prosperity to your career and businesses. We hope that KDF's "Golden Dragon" Icon will not only bring luck and fortune to all generous donors but also presents another lease of life to our needy patients.

For more information, please visit eGifts.

Find inspiration in our Dim Sum Stories!
A 17-year-old girl. Full of life and vigour, all ready to take on the world. For someone with big dreams, all that changed when she was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure, at the very tender age of 17. And as if God was playing a cruel joke on her family, her brother was later diagnosed with the same illness: Medullary Cystic Kidney Disorder. Read about her story and more in Dim Sum Stories, a collection of 15 short stories chronicling the lives of dialysis patients and their caregivers.

For more information, please visit eGifts.

Eating Right
Our original "Recipes by Renal Patients" cookbook is almost sold out and we now present to you "Eating Right", a reprint of the original book. The newly designed "Eating Right" cookbook now contains both the ENGLISH and MANDARIN versions of all recipes as requested by many of you.

For more information, please visit eGifts.

KDF Donation Box
Do you have loose change after purchase of meals or groceries? Feed them into our hungry KDF donation boxes! There’s no donation that is too little. Our donation boxes can be found island-wide at locations such as the Novotel Singapore, PSC, Killiney-Kopitiam, Kopitiam and S11 outlets.

For more information, please visit Events.

Project World Friends
Charity knows no boundaries! Project World Friends is designed to receive donation from both local and foreign currencies. If you have unused foreign currencies from your recent holiday, donate them for a good cause! We accept currencies from just about any country in the world.

For more information, please visit Events.