Stories of Hope and Healing
Donation Stories
We are very grateful to the amazing people who have agreed to share their stories. We think they’re inspirational and hope you enjoy reading them. If you’re interested in becoming a living donor, or know someone affected by failing kidneys, contact us us to see how we can help.
Inspirational Podcasts on Living Kidney Donation
We love sharing the wonderful stories from our living donors. Every story is different, but the love and care that living donors have is a common thread running through each podcast.
Diary of a living kidney donor
Dela’s story
Offering to become my brother’s living donor was a natural thing for me to do, in fact it was a no brainer!
Olivia’s Story
Maria’s Story
Polly’s Story
A Journey of Courage
Becoming a living donor
There are many potential benefits of a live donor kidney transplant. These include better long-term outcomes for patients and less likelihood of rejection.
There are four routes for living organ donation:
- Direct donation to a known individual
- Directed altruistic donation to a specific individual with no pre-existing relationship
- Non-direct altruistic donation to a complete stranger
- Paired/pooled donation where donor and recipient are incompatible so join a sharing scheme that matches other registered pairs of donors and recipients to increase compatibility for transplants.
This book will help inspire you to become a living organ donor and change someone’s life forever.
More Than A Match
Is an informative guide on being a Living Kidney Donor for a loved one or close friend who has kidney failure and needs a life-saving transplant.
The book narrates the personal and emotional journey of a family who unite together as living donors to try and save the life of one of their own who needs a life-saving kidney transplant.
My sister who has kidney failure has been on dialysis for seven years. I was too afraid to donate a kidney to her, but after reading how Dela’s daughters who are in the 20’s offered to become donors for their uncle, I realised I had no excuse. Thank you for such a remarkable story.
A AKINBOLA
Testimonials
Reading More Than a Match gave me the courage to come forward as a donor for my sister. Thank you so much Dela for sharing your story, hopefully it will help to change my sister’s life.” – Dayo Doru
I knew little about organ donation; however, I knew that it was something black people did not partake in. After reading More Than a Match my attitude towards it has changed. The bottom line is that people from the African- Caribbean community must help each other to succeed not only in music and sports but also in health.” – R. Kwame
This is a warm and sensitively written book chronicling the emotional and practical journey a sister takes by offering to be a living kidney donor for her brother. I found the account easy to read and both informative and inspirational. I highly recommend this book to those who are interested in this topic or contemplating become a living organ donor.” – Cecil Thompson, University College London