Do you or someone you know need a kidney transplant? KCE cares! The KCE Program serves low-income and disenfranchised adults with kidney challenges. We provide education, guidance, information and inspiration to help you find constructive solutions. We build bridges to health, care providers to ensure better outcomes for our clients. We facilitate access to both local and national resources.
Your tax-deductible donations to the Kidney Community Education program will help to ensure that clients recieve the best possible resources. Please make your check payable to: CAM/KCE, at 29 Mary Street, San Rafael, CA 94901, attention Shar Carlyle, Program Director.
As of February 2012, over 112,902 people are waiting for organ transplant in the United States. If you are in need of a kidney transplant you are particularly at risk. Due to a severe organ shortage, thousands will endure grueling dialysis with a 5-year survival rate of approximately 35%; at 10 years, only 10.5% have survived.
The failure to meet this demand has sparked a paradigm shift, from reliance on deceased donor organs to actively embarking on living donor transplant searches. Innovations such as paired donations and Web assisted altruistic living donation are allowing more people to live with better outcomes.
We envision a future in which people facing health challenges and medical professionals become partners in health. and more people will receive the gift of life of an organ transplant.
In 2008, in response to a nationwide gap in vital information for adults with kidney challenges, cofounders Shar Carlyle, a volunteer and kidney transplant recipient, along with philanthropist Jerome Strom, paired up to launch Strom Kidney Education Fund. In 2010, to better reflect our mission the program was renamed and became Kidney Community Education, "The KCE Program." The KCE program was created to help those caught between the challenge of a life-threatening health condition and constructive solutions.