Find a Kidney Donor

10/11/2021

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

We are looking for someone to take charge and act as CEO to lead Kidney Donor Match to be all we dreamed it would. Are you passionate about helping others find their life saving kidney donor? If so, shoot us a message and lets talk!

08/09/2020

Would you like transportation to and from your dialysis center and free gourmet meals to help you stay healthy during this Covid season? If so, see below and email Amanda@kidneydonormatch.org!

Note- you must reside in Gwinnett County, Georgia

29/01/2020

Did you know that there are over 112,000 people documented in the US in need of a transplant?
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12/01/2020

Head over to our new FB page, https://m.facebook.com/Kidney-Donor-Match-100263671391181/?tsid=0.6284224273186033&source=result.

We will no longer be posting content on this page and we don’t want you to miss anything!

We are passionate about helping patients find their life-saving kidney donor and raising living kidn

01/01/2020

Hi! 👋 Amanda here.. I am so excited to finally make this FB official!! Please read ❤️🙏❤️

In January of last year, God orchestrated my kidney donation to Vonchelle Webb Knight. 💞 It was awesome and a journey I will never forget. However, as most of you know, her transplant ultimately failed. I remember pulling over when I found out and uncontrollably sobbing in my car. I cried out to God, “How could you call me to something this big and allow it to fail?” I was lost, confused and heartbroken.

Over the next few months, God held me tightly and planted a seed in me to form a nonprofit to connect those on the kidney waitlist to potential donors. I began to wonder, “What if God’s plan was bigger than I could have ever imagined on my own?’ When I trust Him, I don’t need to understand.

 I knew NOTHING about starting a nonprofit. I was completely clueless but wholeheartedly willing. Door after door was opened and Kidneydonormatch.org was born. It was founded on the belief that we are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves- Matthew 22:39. This includes everyone. Not just our friends or family but strangers.

Our site will help those in kidney failure find their life-saving kidney donor while educating others on living kidney donation. There are 100,000 people waiting right now on a life-saving kidney yet nowhere for them to go to tell their personal story of kidney failure to be matched with potential donors.

As humans, we love stories and we were designed that way from the beginning. Jesus often spoke in parables. Stories have a unique ability to build connections and that’s what we aim to do through kidneydonormatch.org. After all, it was God using a special woman’s story that led me to donate.

Thank you to my board and officers, Rachael Schulman, Morgan Cotton and Lauren Larrison. And a HUGE thank you to Ryan Burton and his amazing team for building an incredible website and Rob Bexley for being a fantastic attorney and quickly setting us up as an OFFICIAL 501(c)3! Every single person has been a personal answer to prayer.

Please like Kidney Donor Match on FB, check out our site and keep a look out for our official launch party in March! 💚💚

We are passionate about connecting recipients to their life saving kidney donors.

31/12/2019

Happy New Year’s Eve! With the new year comes exciting new things.. as we get ready to share our plans for 2020, please hop on over to our new FB page, Kidney Donor Match  https://m.facebook.com/Kidney-Donor-Match-100263671391181. Please like and follow so you can stay informed on what we are up to. ❤️

We can’t wait to share our big news that will connect thousands of those on the waitlist to their life saving kidney donors. If you are someone who is currently on the waitlist, don’t lose hope for God. Is. Working. This new year will be the best yet. 😍💫💞

We are passionate about helping patients find their life-saving kidney donor and raising living kidn

12/12/2019

We have been very busy lately. Our team has been working on something very special that will help connect the thousands of those on the kidney waitlist to their potential kidney donors. ❤️ We have an exciting announcement coming soon. Stay tuned!

07/10/2019

This is Tameka. She is 28 years old from Grovetown, Georgia. In 2014, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) and as of last year, her kidneys eventually failed. In the past year alone, she has had to endure an unimaginable 18+ surgeries. She is now on dialysis 3 days every week.

If you met Tameka, you would never know. She is always smiling and positive, trusting God has a plan. Tameka is B+ and can receive from other B or O blood types. Even if you are not a match, you can donate through a paired kidney exchange. Please message us for more details.

If you are interested in donating, please click on this link emory.donorscreen.org to fill out a quick medical questionnaire.

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25/09/2019

Quick facts on kidney donation. There simply aren’t enough kidneys for the 100,000 people waiting.

25/08/2019

If there were enough kidneys for everyone in the US who needed one, we could save 43,000 lives every single year.

You can help.

05/08/2019

Some of the most famous kidneys throughout history.. 😂

30/07/2019

This is Dan of Duluth, Georgia and he is 58 years old. Dan is a family man. He loves his family very much and wants to be healthy enough to provide for them again. He loves to spend his time in prayer and loves to be at church.

He found out he had Membranous Glomerulonephritis (MGN) when he was just thirty years old which ended up causing him to go into kidney failure. He was on dialysis for 4 years and then received a kidney transplant in 2001. That transplant lasted 11 years. For the past 7 years, he has been on dialysis and has been battling numerous health issues.

Dan’s blood type is O. Although this blood type can give to any other blood type, they can only receive from other O blood type patients. If you would like to begin the process to see if you’re a match, contact his his pre-transplant coordinator, Denise Neal at Emory- 855-366-7989.

Even if you don’t feel led to share your spare, please share this post. Your share could be the one to reach his life saving kidney donor.

12/07/2019

Could you imagine having NO physical symptoms and finding out at a regular check up that you are in end stage kidney failure? Imagine you are in the prime of your life with a thriving career and newly married, when this news stops you dead in your tracks.

This is Prashant, a 32 year old attorney. He has a long life to live and many memories to build. During a regular check up in June 2019, Prashant was told that he is at end stage renal failure and that his kidneys are functioning at less than 10%. Given that he had no physical symptoms, this news came as a complete shock and has changed his life completely. From being a young attorney, working full time, spending weekends with his wife and family, his life now revolves around daily sessions of dialysis to save his life. Doctors have told him that he would need a transplant ASAP and ideally within the next 6-12 months or he will have long lasting side effects from dialysis.

An ideal match for Prashant will be someone with blood group B or O. However, even if not a perfect match, you can do a paired donation (where Prashant and his donor can be matched with another patient / donor pair). For more information, please reach out to Prashant and his family at prashantprav@gmail.com.

If you would like to reach out to his transplant coordinator, her details are below:

Rachel Doll – Kovler Organ Transplantation Center
Email: Rachel.doll@nm.org
Phone No. 312-695-0828
Please reference your request by naming: Prashant Praveen; Date of Birth: 12/15/1986

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05/07/2019

A story of a semi driver looking for a kidney and using his truck as a mobile billboard. It was a sign (flyer) that called me to donate. Maybe this will do the same for you?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wmur.com/amp/article/friday-july-12th-the-search-for-a-life-saving-kidney/28279728

The message a Sandown trucker hopes will save his life.

20/06/2019

This is Angelina Lopez. She is 19 years old and lives in Cairo, Georgia. She is a recent graduate but too physically drained to work at this point in her life.

Two years ago, Angelina learned that she had end stage kidney disease. Angelina suffers from lupus which can have detrimental effects on the kidneys. Lupus nephritis causes inflammation (swelling or scarring) of the small blood vessels that filter wastes in your kidney and can sometimes attack them like your body would attack a disease.

Angelina’s blood type is O. If you would like to learn more about donating to Angelina, please contact her transplant coordinator at Piedmont Hospital, Julie Pfeiffer, at 404-605-2950.

Even if you don’t feel led to , please share this post! Yours could be the one to reach her life-saving kidney donor.

17/06/2019

Donating a kidney at 84! Incredible ❤️

There is a common misconception older people can't be donors, but that's not true, doctors say.

30/05/2019

This is incredible!

Chain 221 began April 30 with an altruistic donor in Memphis, Tenn. and ended June 5 in Cleveland, Ohio with 56 participants.

26/05/2019

This beautiful girl is Nelli Palchevskaya from Atlanta, Georgia and she is only 22 years old. She was a normal, healthy and active girl growing up. However, after a visit to the emergency room on January 2015, she found out both kidneys had failed and she was in end stage renal failure. If not for the accidental visit to the emergency room that day, she could have died within a week.

At that point, she was told she needed a kidney transplant as soon as possible and was placed on the kidney waitlist. She immediately began dialysis to keep her alive. Over the next four years, Nelli underwent various surgeries with the only solution left being a kidney transplant.

Nelli can receive a kidney from both B+ or O blood type. Even if you are not a match, you can donate through a paired kidney exchange (where you are both entered as a 'pair' to be matched with another 'pair').

If you would like to start the donation process, please call 1-855-EMORYTX (366-7989) and register for an interview. This interview includes a medical screening to determine if you are healthy enough to begin the donation process.

Information needed to register:
Name: Nelli Palchevskaya
(DOB) 08/25/1996

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