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Conducts awareness campaigns and encourages organ donation. Sponsors volunteer constituent councils for organ donors and transplant patients, including the TransAction Council, the Hawaii Organ Donor Family Council. Sponsors the Transplant Games, an Olympic-Style competition for transplant recipients. Supports training opportunities for health care professionals. Educates the public about problems of progressive kidney disease and possible means of prevention. Conducts free patient/family workshops called "Kidney Options Patient Empowerment." Publishes free dialysis cookbooks and kidney patient handbooks. Offers free educational CD roms for children, along with a school outreach program featuring "Sidney the Kidney." Conducts free statewide kidney screenings, provides disease self-management programs, nutritional counseling, cooking deomonstrations and funds research initiatives for a cure. Accepts donations of automobiles in running or non-running condition. Can arrange for a free tow if ne

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Kidney Screening
Clothing Donation Programs
Household Goods Donation Programs
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
Automobile Donation Programs
Workshops/Symposiums
Disease/Disability Information
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Organ/Tissue Transplant Education Programs
Conducts awareness campaigns and encourages organ donation. Sponsors volunteer constituent councils for organ donors and transplant patients, including the TransAction Council, the Hawaii Organ Donor Family Council and the Transplant Association of Hawaii. Sponsors the Transplant Games, an Olympic-Style competition for transplant recipients. Supports training opportunities for health care professionals. Educates the public about problems of progressive kidney disease and possible means of prevention. Conducts free patient/family workshops called "People Like Us Live." Publishes free dialysis cookbooks and kidney patient handbooks. Offers free educational CD Roms for children, along with a school outreach program featuring "Sidney the Kidney." Conducts free statewide kidney screenings and funds research initiatives for a cure. Accepts donations of automobiles in running or non-running condition. Can arrange for a free tow if necessary. Also accepts donations of gently used clothing a

Categories

Workshops/Symposiums
Clothing Donation Programs
Kidney Screening
Organ/Tissue Transplant Education Programs
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
Household Goods Donation Programs
Disease/Disability Information
Automobile Donation Programs
Health/Disability Related Counseling