PROJECTS
This section explains about our
projects: current, planned and completed projects.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Africa Kidney Awareness Project (AKAP)
funded by the Department of Health. The project brings
awareness of circulatory conditions such as high blood pressure
and kidney disease to the African communities in East Anglia.
For more details, please click
here.
Youth Volunteering Accreditation Scheme (YOVAS)
funded by Global Charities. The project gives the
opportunities for young people 16-25, to volunteer and gain
nationally recognised volunteering qualification such as CVQ.
For more information, please click
here
Young Africans Kidney Project (YAKIP) funded by BBC
Children in Need The project offers support, advice,
information for children and young people aged 11-18 from
African background with kidney diseases. For more details,
please click
here.
Grassroots Kidney Awareness (GRAKA) is
a project
that develops grassroots kidney awareness programmes for the
African communities in Norfolk. The project involves targeting
the people at local level as well as county level. Fore more
details, please click here.
Health 'n' Living is a support and
healthy-lifestyle project for African kidney
patients and their carers in Norfolk and Suffolk.
AFREKID received a grant funding from Awards for All to
to run the project from October 2007 - October 2008. For
details, please click
here
One Body Many Gifts: Membership Newsletter;
AFREKID was awarded a grant from the Community Champions
Fund to develop membership information exchange and
dissemination through the production of a newsletter. One of our objectives is to disseminate information about renal
services, patient information. The funding ends in March 2008 and we are looking for funding to
continue developing the newsletter. For
more
details, please click
here
Youth 'n' Health is a 3 year
(2008-2011) project for supporting young people 11-19
year olds with kidney disease on dialysis and with a transplant in the East of England. For the planned project details, please
click
here
Africa Kidney Drive:
Graciano will be driving with a team of volunteer across
Africa and Europe in 6 months in 2012 to bring awareness of kidney disease and raise funds
for dialysis in Africa.click
here
PLANNED PROJECTS
Feasibility Study AFREKID plans to
Initiate and establish renal replacement therapy in Africa: a
pilot project in Zimbabwe is planned for 2015. For
planned project details, please click here
Capacity
building
we are looking to
develop AFREKID’s capacity and in this area we are looking for
start-up funding to develop our management committee, volunteers,
strategic and business plans, IT etc. For
project details, please click here
Membership:
We are
a membership organisation and we want to develop a best value system
and expand our base. For
project details, please click here
Fundraising:
Since we are a recently founded organisation, we want to develop
a fundraising plan. For
project details, please click here
Organ
Donation Campaign:
there is lack of
organs for transplant from black & minority ethnic communities (Baroness
Barker Hansard Column 1620 21st July 2005), and black
people are more likely to develop kidney failure due to high
prevalence of diabetes and high blood pressure, but they are less
likely to receive organ transplant due to shortage of organ donors
from minority ethnic communities. For
project details, please click here
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Repositioning AFREKID: We recently
carried out a consultation on AFREKID's direction since its
formation two and a half years ago. Members would like AFREKID
to change its position to reflect its work in Africa and the UK.
Some of the recommendations have been adopted. Click
here for the consultation report.
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ACTIVITIES
Transplant Games, Conferences, meetings, workshops all click
here
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