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Past Events

Kidney We Care: Let’s Revolutionise!

  • Start Date: 1 Mar 2021
  • End Date: 31 Mar 2021

Support us as we rethink kidney failure and life, and push the boundaries of conventional public outreach and volunteering!

Led by volunteers, we hope to heighten community awareness about kidney disease and the importance of renal health.

Join us in charting the way to the next frontier as we journey with kidney failure patients and the community at large!

All funds raised will go towards providing quality treatment and care for our kidney failure patients.

3 Ways You Can Make a Difference

Market Place 

Spotlight

Make Your Mark 

Specially curated and handcrafted by volunteers, these meaningful crafts, practical products and engaging workshops are sure to make your day. 

What’s more? You can touch a life with every purchase made!

Catch our talented volunteers in action! Spread over various genres and staged all over March, you sure don’t want to miss this!

Support them through their donation campaigns for kidney failure patients! 

Leave a footprint and take action against kidney failure! Win an exclusive NKF Gift Pack, inclusive of a NKF50 NETS Flashpay Card with $5 stored value.

Learn and adopt kidney health tips in your life and keep kidney failure at bay!

Follow us @kwc.letsrevolutionise to discover how we rethink kidney failure and life at
Kidney We Care: Let’s Revolutionise! (KWCLR) and participate in exclusive giveaways!

Market Place

Shop for Good at the NKF Virtual Store! Click on each icon to visit the individual stores (available from 1 Mar 2021 onwards) and each booth name to visit the booths’ social media pages.

Audiomeda

NKF Virtual Store

8 – 31 Mar

EJVA

NKF Virtual Store

15 – 31 Mar

Kidney Needs Awareness

NKF Virtual Store

Kidneysaur

NKF Virtual Store

15 – 31 Mar

Lotayaa

NKF Virtual Store

23 – 31 Mar

Painted With Love 

NKF Virtual Store

Project Beansprouts

NKF Virtual Store

PSS Interact Club

NKF Virtual Store

8 – 31 Mar

The Sustainability Project

NKF Virtual Store

Zundeng Art

NKF Virtual Store

8 – 31 Mar

CryptIQ

Virtual Escape Room

Project DNA

Virtual Escape Room

13 Mar 
3pm – 4pm 
5.30pm – 6.30pm 

Flower Power

Workshop

20 Mar
10am – 11.30am
1.30pm – 3pm
 
21 Mar
1.30pm – 3pm

Kidney Insight

Workshop

7, 14, 21 & 28 Mar
11am – 12pm

ReNow

Workshop

6, 13, 17 & 27 Mar
10am – 12.30pm

Spotlight

Kidney failure is on the rise. Shine the spotlight on kidney failure and Give Life & Hope to our patients at KWCLR Fundraising Page. Click on each icon to navigate to the teams’ fundraising campaigns (available from 1 Mar 2021 onwards) and each team name to visit the teams’ social media pages.

Chin Yanni - Singing copy

Chin Yanni

4, 7, 12, 14, 18, 21, 26, 28 & 31 Mar
7.30pm – 9.30pm

District 22

21 Mar
2pm – 3pm

Guzheng Association (Singapore) 

13 & 20 Mar
8pm – 8.15pm

Healthy Diet Band (HDB)

20 & 27 Mar
10am – 11am

Jo & Pei Sze

10 Mar
2pm – 2.30pm

Johan Lee

2 & 16 Mar
7pm – 8.30pm

Paul Ryan Loh

13, 20 & 27 Mar
 4pm – 4.30pm

RACSG

6 & 20 Mar
1pm – 1.30pm

RECO

18 & 25 Mar
3pm – 3.30pm

SP Chinese Music & Cultural Club

27 Mar
7.30pm – 9.30pm

SP DanceSport Club

13 & 20 Mar
4.30pm – 5.30pm

27 Mar
3pm – 4pm

SP Vocal Talent – Daily Dolce

27 Mar
4.30pm – 5.15pm

The 2nd As

7 Mar
5pm – 6pm

13 Mar
2pm – 3pm

20 Mar
3pm – 3.30pm

28 Mar
5pm – 6pm

Volunteer Guitar Connection

20 Mar
12pm – 1pm

Make Your Mark

3 steps to challenge yourself to a healthier you!

Challenge Period: 1 to 31 Mar 2021

Step 1: Step 2: Step 3:
Forgo Sugary Drinks for 7 Days Capture your Journey Submit your Entry
Drink plain water or opt for drinks without sugar

Examples: fruit-infused water, kopi kosong, teh kosong, bubble tea with 0% sugar and green tea without sugar 		Social Media
1. Snap photos or videos of your journey
2. Tag a friend, @NKFSG and @kwc.letsrevolutionise
3. Hashtag #KidneyWeCare, #LetsRevolutionise and #NKFSG7day
4. Post it on social media!

OR

Pen It Down
Blog or pen your journey in a diary 		Email the following information to volunteer@nkfs.org

1. Your Name
2. Contact Number
3. Mailing Address and
4. A digital copy of your captured experience

Winners will be contacted in April 2021

A total of 100 NKF Gift Bags to be given away! Each gift bag contains an assortment of items including a limited-edition NKF USB Drive Pen (top 50 winners only), NKF50 NETS Flashpay Card with $5 stored value and other NKF gifts!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Find out more about 7-Day No Sugary Drinks Challenge Charity Drive 2021.

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  • Phone: 1800-KIDNEYS (5436397)
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FAQ

General Enquiries

As there are limited car park lots available at NKF Centre visitors may need to park at the nearby HDB car parks in the vicinity.

NKF HQ Mondays –Thursdays
Fridays
PH / Weekends 		8.30am –6.00pm
8.30am –5.00pm
Closed
Dialysis Centres Mondays –Saturdays
Sundays
PH 		7.00am –11.00pm
Closed
7.00am –11.00pm

We are open on most public holidays except for the 1st day of Chinese New Year.

NKF does not provide ad hoc dialysis treatment. Our patients are on long-term dialysis treatment. You may wish to check with private dialysis centres for ad hoc dialysis treatments.

NKF does not have an outpatient clinic and hence, we are unable to arrange an appointment for members of the public. You may wish to contact a hospital of your choice for outpatient service.

Currently, NKF does not provide health report interpretation service. You may consult your General Practitioner who will be able to assist you.

Someone with kidney failure may not experience any signs and symptoms until it is too late. It is best to do a routine health screening to understand your health status better and detect any abnormalities as early as possible so that you can delay and manage the disease progression.

To know about the signs and symptoms please click here to learn more.

Decreased urination Swollen hands and ankles Sleep disturbances
Blood in the urine (tea-coloured or fresh blood) Puffiness around the eyes High blood pressure
Nausea and vomiting Itching Loss of appetite

All dialysis centres operate on 3 dialysis shifts –morning, noon and evening.

Morning Noon Evening
7.00am –12.00pm 12.00pm – 6.00pm 6.00pm –11.00pm
Timing of your dialysis schedule may vary for each dialysis centres.
Schedules
Monday, Wednesday and Friday (1,3,5) OR Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (2,4,6)

Admissions

Our Admissions Counsellor will contact you once your application is finalised. They will be in contact with you soon.

From the day we receive the application form, it will take approximately 3 working days to a week for us to get back to you if you have submitted all completed supporting documents together with your application form to us. Generally, the whole process will take 6 months for the approval.

The overall application review process will take approximately 6 months before the applicant can start the first dialysis treatment. However, if the applicant is able to provide all completed supporting documents and if there is a slot available at the dialysis centre with a right match to the time slot, the waiting time could be shorter.

Currently, we do not have status checking service online. NKF Admissions Counsellor will be in contact with the applicants regarding the status.

You may pick it up from the NKF main office at 81 Kim Keat Road, Singapore 328836 or call us at 6506 2187 to have the forms sent to you.

Means Test is used to determine the amount of subsidies each person needing care is eligible for. Persons from lower income households will be granted higher subsidies under the means test framework.

Means Test subsidies calculation is based in accordance to MOH guidelines.

Our NKF Admissions Counsellor in-charge will contact you in regards to your means test status.

The Medical Social Workers at your hospital will be able to advise you on the different type of subsidies based on your financial situation.

Kidney Live Donor Support Fund

For information on kidney donation in Singapore, you may wish to contact the National Organ Transplant Unit at Tel: 6321 4390 or email organ.transplant@notu.com.sg.

NKF’s Kidney Live Donor Support Fund covers annual health screenings and medical follow-ups; one-time reimbursement for loss of 2 months actual income of $8,500, whichever is lower: reimbursement of hospitalisation and surgical insurance premiums (capped at MediShield Life premiums); pre-transplant screening and evaluation costs for up to 2 potential donors per kidney recipient; and insurance coverage for Group Living. Policy based on sum insured of $200,000.

For more information and eligibility, please click here. 

Donation & Volunteering

You can make the donation through different platforms:

  1. For online donation: please visit https://nkfs.org/support-us/donation-programmes/
  2. Or you may like to issue a cheque made payable to “The National Kidney Foundation” or “NKF” and mail it to us at 81 Kim Keat Road, Singapore 328836.
  3. Alternatively, you may contact us at 1800-KIDNEYS (5436397) or email us at lifedrops@nkfs.org to send you the donation form.
  4. Road Singapore 328836.

Thank you for your generosity. The cheque should be issued to “The National Kidney Foundation” or “NKF”.

Thank you for bequeathing your CPF contributions to NKF. You can fill up the CPF nomination form which can be downloaded from the CPF website. NKF’s UEN is 200104750M.

Thank you for your generosity. You may like to visit the Ministry of Law’s website where you can find a list of lawyers based in Singapore. Please visit https://eservices.mlaw.gov.sg/lsra/search-lawyer-or-law-firm/

Our UEN/ Company Registration No. / GST Registration No. is 200104750M.

Please send us an email at lifedrops@nkfs.org or call us at 1800-KIDNEYS (5436397) and we will assist you accordingly.

You may email your new mailing address to lifedrops@nkfs.org , Please include your full name, contact number, old mailing address and UEN or NRIC/FIN (last 3 digits)

You may email us at lifedrops@nkfs.org to get the donation form. Please fill up your new GIRO/credit card number, donation amount and sign the form. Thereafter, post the GIRO form back to NKF for processing.

For credit card, you may wish to scan the form and send it to NKF via either of these options:

Email – lifedrops@nkfs.org

Fax – 6253 0417

Mail – 81 Kim Keat Road, Singapore 328836

Please email us at lifedrops@nkfs.org with your full name, UEN/NRIC/FIN and mailing address.

Please email us at lifedrops@nkfs.org to have the termination form sent to you. Please fill it up and send it back to us for processing and auditing purposes.

All outright cash donations to NKF are entitled to tax deduction because NKF is a registered charity with an IPC (Institutions of Public Character) status. We are able to issue tax deductible receipts for qualifying donations to our donors.

You are entitled to a tax deduction of 2.5 times the value of your donation in the preceding year.

You may sign up via our website at https://onlinereg.nkfs.org/vms/volunteerapplicationform.aspx.

If you do not have access to the internet, please call us at 1800-KIDNEYS (5436397) to have the application form sent to you. Please fill it up and send it back to us at 81 Kim Keat Road Singapore 328836.

Once we receive your application, our colleague from the Donor and Volunteer Management Department will contact you for a phone interview. After which, you will be invited to attend our volunteer orientation. This is to allow you to have a better understanding of the volunteering activities.

The minimum age is 13 years old. For volunteers who are below the age of 21, you will need to get parental consent. You may download the consent form here.

We strongly encourage our volunteers to commit at least a year so that we can better support our patients. Our programmes and activities are flexible, you can choose your volunteering schedule according to your interest and availability.

You may volunteer with us basing on your availability. We will send a weekly email to our volunteers indicating the up-coming volunteering opportunities. You can then match your availability to the activity schedule.

We have an array of volunteering activities to suit your interest and availability. To learn more about the volunteering activities we offer, please visit https://nkfs.org/support-us/volunteer-programmes/.

Anyone and everyone can join us as a volunteer. All applicants will be required to undergo a mandatory orientation session where you will gain insights into the Foundation’s cause, kidney disease as well as learn more about the volunteering activities we offer. Regular trainings are also conducted for all volunteers so that they can better perform their role.

Most definitely! We welcome schools, companies and community groups to volunteer with us as part of their Values In Action and Corporate Social Responsibility activities. Please get in touch with us on your interest by sending an email to volunteer@nkfs.org.

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Please be informed that our online donation will be temporarily unavailable on Tuesday, 17th December 2024, from 03:00 AM to 05:00 AM
 for maintenance.

If you have any donation inquiries during this time, please feel free to email us at Lifedrops@nkfs.org.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.