KDF will be holding its 11th Annual Public Forum on 6th March 2010 (Sat) as part of its commitment towards promoting public awareness and education on kidney and kidney-related diseases. The forum will be conducted in English. Admission is free and seating availability is subjected to first come first serve basis.

The details for the Public Forum 2010 are:
Date: 6th March 2010 (Sat)
Venue: Suntec Convention Centre, Level 2, Ballroom 2 and 3
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm (Exhibition, Health Screening)
           2:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Forum by Speakers)
Language: English

For more information, please contact Ms Jacqueline Chan at 6559 2653 or jacqueline.chan@kdf.org.sg.

Are you game enough for a fun-filled and challenging adventure? Join us in our first ever Amazing Kidney Race on 27th March 2010 (Sat). Race through the different road-blocks and obstacles and at the same time, learn more about your kidneys and health.

Jointly organised by KDF and Nee Soon South Community Club Women Executive Committee and Youth Executive Committee (WEC & YEC), and in conjunction with World Kidney Day 2010, KDF is organising a race cum educational expedition for students of all ages. Adapted from the hit reality series “The Amazing Race”, participants will have to complete the race by making pit stops at designated stations to complete tasks or games before reaching the finishing point.

Attractive prizes await the winners! Trophies and prizes would be awarded to the Top Three of each category and Top Collector Prize for the person who collected the most donations from the pledge card.

The race is open for everyone! Students from Primary to Secondary Schools can form a team of 10 and compete in the Student Category. For parents with kids, or groups of friends and buddies, you are more than welcome to participate too! Form a team of at least 5 persons for our Open Category. Don’t miss out on this ideal bonding and educational activity for you, your friends and family!

To be eligible for The Amazing Kidney Race, each participant simply has to adopt our KDF pledge card and raise a minimum amount of $25.00 for our needy patients. Alternatively, you can also participate in the Race by making an outright donation of $25.00. Click here for reminder notes to all participants. Please note that every participant has to complete the Indemnity Form and send it back to us.

For more information, please contact Ms Zahara Ibrahim at 6559 2652 or zahara@kdf.org.sg.

KDF is taking fundraising to the streets for our Flag Day themed “Pay It Forward Day”!

Date: 15th May 2010 (Sat)
Reporting Centres:
- Compass Point (next to Sengkang MRT)
- Lot One (next to Choa Chu Kang MRT)
- Plaza Singapura (next to Dhoby Ghaut MRT)
- Causeway Point (next Woodlands MRT)
- Jurong Point (next to Boon Lay MRT)
- Ang Mo Kio Hub (next to Ang Mo Kio MRT)
Time Shifts:
- 7:30 am – 5:00 pm or
- 7:30 am – 1:30 pm or
- 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
*CIP hours up for grabs!

On this day, we hope to mobilise 4,000 volunteers to help us raise $60,000 to fund the daily operations of our dialysis centres and subsidise treatment fees for our needy kidney patients.

YOU can become one of the links of our good-will movement:

Corporate organisations

• Companies can conduct an ‘Office Flag Day’, an internal collection within their office, and donors will be given a KDF origami paper crane which they can display on their desks (instead of usual Flag Day stickers) as a token of appreciation
• Companies can recruit and mobilise their staff to be volunteers for the island-wide street collection
• Companies can also provide sponsorship or make an outright donation to the project

Schools

• Schools can recruit and mobilise their students as volunteers to participate in the island-wide street collection
• Schools can organise an internal collection within the school to help raise funds for this project (Educational kidney health talk for students can be arranged upon request)

Individuals

• Interested individuals can volunteer to help raise funds through our island-wide collection on the event day

Your support to help us raise funds will go a long way towards helping our needy patients stricken with kidney disease to have a better quality of life. We need as many volunteers as we can get to make a difference! Sign up with us today!

To register for participation, please email your Name, I/C no., Contact no. and the Reporting Centre and Time Shift you have chosen to Ms Zahara Ibrahim at zahara@kdf.org.sg or call her at 6559 2652. You will be contacted to confirm your participation.

Alternatively, download the reply form here and send it back to us.

Do you have loose change after purchase of meals or groceries? Feed them into our hungry donation boxes! There’s no donation that is too little. Every penny that goes into the donation box would mean more subsidies for the dialysis treatment costs for the poor and needy kidney patients under our care. Now you can also donate foreign coins and notes into our donation boxes, after the integration of Project World Friends into our Donation Box project.

If you are interested to adopt a donation box and place it within your premises, please contact Ms Zahara Ibrahim at 6559 2652 or email zahara@kdf.org.sg.

With strong support from our kind partners who have adopted our donation boxes, we now have donation boxes island-wide at locations such as the Novotel Singapore, PSC, Killiney-Kopitiam, Kopitiam and S11 outlets. Click here for a list of locations of our donation boxes. Please donate when you spot one!

Project World Friends
Charity knows no boundaries! Kindness and love transcend geographical boundaries, races, languages and cultures. We are able to appreciate this more in our very own multi-racial community in Singapore. So let’s spread our love without boundaries, through KDF’s Project World Friends!

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.

To help in this project, you can donate the foreign currencies to us by posting them or drop them personally at our main office. Alternatively, you can also look for our donation boxes around Singapore and feed into them. Locate our donation boxes here.

If you intend to do a group collection internally within your organization or school, we would be glad to arrange donation boxes to be sent to you.

Ms Zahara Ibrahim at 6559 2652 or email zahara@kdf.org.sg for more information.