bc annual report 2012

hope and possibilities

2012 ANNUAL REPORTKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA BC BRANCH

our visionKidney health and improved lives for all people affected by kidney disease.

our mission statementThe Kidney Foundation of Canada is the national volunteer organization committed to reducing the burden of kidney disease through:

• Funding and stimulating innovative research• Providing education and support• Promoting access to high quality health care• Increasing public awareness and commitment to advancing kidney health and organ donation


Dr. R. MORRISON HURLEYBoard President

KAREN PHILPExecutive Director

First and foremost, we would like to extend a big thank you to our volunteers, members and staff for your dedication, support and many contributions over the last year to the BC Branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada. We could not do it without you and we are proud of your achievements.

Your efforts contributed to research; delivered services and programs that directly supported British Columbians living with kidney disease and their families; and raised awareness about the seriousness of the disease. You helped advocate on behalf of the kidney community; and built our capacity to make a difference by raising much-needed funding.

Whether as a member of a Chapter, a volunteer for The Kidney Walk or our March Drive Campaign, people like you ensured that thousands of British Columbians heard our message about the burden of kidney disease; about how to protect their own kidney health; and about the tangible support our Branch provides to British Columbians affected by this costly chronic disease.

In tribute, in this year’s annual report, we share just a few of the many remarkable stories of our patients, volunteers, researchers, Chapter members and donors. No, there is no cure for kidney disease yet but with extraordinary people united for a common cause, we have reason to be confident about rising to new challenges in the future. Looking forward, we remain committed to investing in the medical and scientific research that may generate a cure. Until that day, we accept our responsibility to address the needs of the more than 250,000 British Columbians affected by this disease today.

In 2013, we’ll focus on increasing our support for people living with kidney disease and their families through our existing programs and services. And once again, to be successful, we will need your help. There are many ways you can support British Columbians affected by this serious disease: deliver educational programs, speak out on behalf of the kidney community to your local MLA, or join our Kidney Walk and March Drive in 2013.

Whether by volunteering your energy and time, by raising funds or by donating a kidney through the Living Organ Donor Expense Reimbursement Program, you become part of a community of people contributing to a meaningful cause. Thank you for joining with us to make a real difference.

Sincerely,

In doing so, you sent a crucial message of hope and possibility to people who know adversity only too well.

R. Morrison Hurley,MD MSc FRCPCBoard President

Karen Philp, D.PhilExecutive Director

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Message from our Volunteer Board President and our Executive Director

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To regulars at the “Big A,” as it’s known to locals in Trail, BC, Doug Deyotte is the drummer in No Fine Print, a classic-rock cover band that energizes the pub some nights. Chances are they’ve seen the 58-year old burn some serious calories banging out rhythms on the skins and clearly enjoying the effort.

What patrons might not know is that Doug will go home after his gig and hook himself up to a peritoneal dialysis machine, called a cycler, for eight hours. The machine will do what his kidneys can’t: remove waste products from his blood. It’s an at-home alternative to the more commonly used blood-filtering procedure called hemodialysis.

Doug has end-stage kidney disease and the daily detoxes, the tube in his abdomen, the medications, special diet and the fatigue are facts of life. They will remain so until he gets a new kidney; with his rare blood type, the wait could be as long as 12 years.

Yet Doug, once a high-level hockey player, is full of life. “No, I can’t go to the gym anymore and the daily routine can wear on you, but I love to write and play music. And as long as I keep doing the things I love, I have something that gets me out of bed everyday.” Doug hasn’t always been so philosophical about his condition. He first learned he had kidney disease about seven years ago when he was referred to a nephrologist after extreme bouts of fatigue and nausea.

He was told then his kidneys were functioning at 15 percent. Dialysis was recommended, but he resisted. It wasn’t until his kidney function dropped to 11 percent in August of 2012 that he realized he had no choice.

“The adjustment is huge,” he says. “The changes to your lifestyle can be frustrating at times, but you do come to terms with the changes and eventually you stop thinking about how sick you are.”

It helped that Doug didn’t have to make the transition alone. He’s had the full support of family, as well as the expertise of a multidisciplinary team of renal specialists working out of the Kidney Care Clinic at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.

ONE PATIENT’S STORY

The rhythm of a life well lived

Enter Connie Poling: a key member of Doug’s team… Connie Poling has been a renal social worker at the Kidney Care Clinic in Trail for seven years. “The doctors and nurses look after medical needs, the dietitians take care of nutritional requirements. I look after pretty much everything else,” she says.

Connie provides patients and their families with the psychosocial support needed to cope with a chronic illness such as kidney disease. She will arrange financial, psychological or logistical support through all the pivotal points: acceptance, transition to dialysis, pre and post transplant, return to work and even through to end-of-life.

When a patient first comes into the clinic, Connie starts by doing a needs assessment. “I’ll find out if the patient has accepted that they have a chronic disease or if they’re resisting. Are they angry? Rebellious? If necessary, I can pull in the resources to help them work through to acceptance.”

She then looks at a patient’s financial well-being and lifestyle. “I recently had a 35-year old patient come in who works full-time and shares custody of his two kids with his wife. He’s close to needing dialysis and was very worried about its impact on his work and financial life. So we worked through the basics financially until he felt secure enough that when he needs to start dialysis, he’ll be okay with that.”

The same kind of care and support is given to transplant patients, who must visit the clinic in Trail every three to four months after the eight week post surgery stay in Vancouver.

Currently, there are 50 people in the Kootenays who are living with new kidneys and need the support of the Kidney Care Clinic. “It’s not a cure,” says Connie. “Transplant recipients still need a good deal of support.”

Her caseload also includes 70 patients on hemodialysis, some she’ll see weekly or daily; 35 on peritoneal dialysis, like Doug, who she sees at least once every three months; and 180 other patients at various stages of kidney disease.

The most challenging part of her job, Connie says, is when a transplanted kidney begins to fail, often at the end of someone’s life. “I’ll work through this with the families. I’m a familiar face and I like to think I can provide some sort of comfort during what can be a very difficult time.”

For Doug, Connie’s help with the financial side of things was a real blessing. “With everything else going on, worrying about money too would be just awful.”

As for Connie, she’s inspired by her patients everyday. “They make my job look easy because they never let the disease define them. I like to think I’m working with people’s strengths to help them be the best they can be, in spite of the disease.”

Clearly, Doug has found his strength. The smile on his face when he’s at his drum kit is proof of that. ■

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As for Connie, she’s inspired by her patients everyday. “They make my job look easy because they never let the disease define them...”

DOUG DEYOTTE and his wife, SHARON (seated on left),meet with CONNIE POLING, Renal Social Worker

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Kidney Foundation’s programs and services meet diverse needs of patients and familiesWhat could teen Sophie Burk, healthy senior Frank Simpson and kidney patient Jackie Longhurst possibly have in common? They’ve all been touched by kidney disease. And they’ve all seen first-hand the benefits of at least one of the programs of the BC Branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada.

Programs and Services:Short Term Financial Assistance ProgramInformation and Referral Kidney Connect (Peer Support Program)Kidney Camp for KidsLiving Organ Donor Expense Reimbursement ProgramKidney SuitesTargeted Screening

2012 PROGRAMS & SERVICESHIGHLIGHT

Sent 43 children living with kidney disease to Kidney Camp for Kids for a week

The BC Branch continues its efforts to be the organization of choice for all those in the province affected by kidney disease and to educate the public with our message of kidney health, early diagnosis and positive lifestyle changes.

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SOPHIE BURKat Kidney Camp for Kids at Zajac Ranch

“I’m so grateful to the Kidney Foundation for the Camp experience,” adds Sophie. “It’s been a highlight for me every summer since I was ten and it’s the one thing that got me through my relapse last year.”

Delta teen Sophie Burk was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome or nephrosis, a rare condition affecting the kidney’s filters, when she was just a toddler. Accompanied by painful swelling (often of the eyelids, feet and ankles, and eventually, the abdomen), without treatment the condition eventually leads to difficulty breathing and eating, and infections.

“I’ve grown up learning about it,” says Sophie. “I knew I was different, that there are things I could not eat and that I could relapse any time, but I still got to do the things I really wanted to, like play soccer and field hockey.”

Fortunately, the condition can usually be controlled with medication and most kids grow out of it by adolescence. But last summer, at 13 years old and after going five years without an episode, Sophie suddenly relapsed. “I couldn’t stand up for more than ten seconds, it hurt so much,” she says.

In spite of a generally positive attitude, the relapse after so long without one brought Sophie down. There was a light at the end of the tunnel, however: the BC Branch’s Kidney Camp for Kids at Zajac Ranch on Stave Lake near Mission, BC.

Every summer, a group of kids from seven to 17 years old, with kidney disease or kidney transplants, spend a week at the Camp having fun and getting to know each other. The Kidney Foundation pays for camp fees and transportation so there is no cost to families at all.

Sophie has been going to the Camp every summer since she was ten. This would be her fourth year and she didn’t want to miss it—even though she was still suffering symptoms from her relapse.

So Sophie joined 48 other kids at the camp in August, 43 of them with kidney disease and 6 transplant recipients. They kayaked, rode horses and swam in the lake together.

“The best part, though,” says Sophie, “is the connections you make with other kids who know what it’s like to be sick.”

“I’m so grateful to the Kidney Foundation for the Camp experience,” adds Sophie. “It’s been a highlight for me every summer since I was ten and it’s the one thing that got me through my relapse last year.” ■

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

Kidney Camp for Kids

On August 1, 2012, when kidney patient Jackie Longhurst got the call in her hometown of Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island that there was a kidney available, she had to move quickly. There was barely enough time to pack, let alone make long-term plans for accommodation in Vancouver. Fortunately, that was all taken care of. On arriving in Vancouver at 10 p.m. that same day, the 64-year-old went directly to St. Paul’s Hospital for her transplant surgery, where she stayed for eight days.

After that, she went to one of four of the Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Suites, a short cab ride away, where she’d spend the next six weeks—until she was well enough to go home.

Since making the suites available in 2000, at little or no cost to patients while they are in town recovering from a transplant, 253 kidney patients have taken advantage of them.

In 2011, a three bedroom townhouse was added to the mix as a Family Kidney Suite for families of children who must have hemodialysis and a transplant at BC Children’s Hospital.

Comfortably furnished, well-stocked and conveniently located near malls, restaurants and parks, the Kidney Suite Jackie stayed in was “an absolute godsend,” she says.

Without relatives in Vancouver, her only alternative would have been to stay in a hotel—a less than ideal, and expensive, prospect in the height of summer.

With no worries about accommodation expenses, and despite missing her husband and dogs, Jackie enjoyed her post-surgery stay in Vancouver. And while she’s glad to be home, she talks fondly about her time in the Kidney Suite. “It was wonderful,” she says. “I even got to know my neighbours well enough to go walking with them.”

It was good practice for Jackie, whose immediate plans on her return home as a new kidney recipient included taking her dogs for a nice, long walk. ■

The Kidney Suite program is made possible through our partnership with New Chelsea Society and BC Housing.

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Kidney Suites


Supported 30 post-transplant adults and families with accommodation in our Kidney Suites

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When Frank Simpson’s best friend, Guy, needed a kidney transplant, the 66-year-old wanted to help so badly he was willing not only to donate a kidney, but to borrow money to make it happen. Fortunately, Frank’s gift of a healthy kidney didn’t mean going into debt. He was one of 149 living donors in 2012 who took advantage of LODERP, a Kidney Foundation program that reimburses such donors for expenses related to the assessments required and the surgery.

The intent of LODERP is to reduce the financial burden related to being a living donor and to cover expenses including accommodation, parking, travel, meals and loss of income for eligible donors.

For Frank and his best friend, who live on tiny Piers Island, a close-knit community near Nanaimo, the reimbursements helped take the edge off a highly charged and stressful time in their lives.

The program covered the costs of several trips to and from Vancouver for tests, as well as accommodation before and after the surgery, and dog care while Frank was in hospital and during his recovery.

And what a difference a few months make. “Before the surgery, I constantly worried about getting sick because we were right in the middle of flu season and if you get sick, you’re off the donor list,” says Frank. “Now I feel great and I’m relaxed again.”

As for his friend, “Guy was down to 10 per cent kidney function and was really close to needing dialysis,” Simpson recalls. “He’d pretty much stopped doing the things he loved.”

Today, his pal is back to baking the birthday cakes he’s famous for on the Island—“They take three days to get just right,” Frank says—and to spending time in his beloved garden.

Looking back, would he do it all again? “Without hesitation,” Frank says. “When it’s needed, it’s needed. And with the Kidney Foundation there to help, you’re not doing it alone.” ■

Living Organ Donor Expense Reimbursement Program (LODERP)


LODERP has provided $750,000 in funding since 2006 to 660 individuals


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Research

Over the years, the Kidney Foundation of Canada has invested more than $100 million in kidney-related research projects at Canada’s leading universities and medical research institutes. The funds come from generous donors, sponsors and annual contributors to the Foundation’s Branches. In 2012, the BC Branch invested over $860,000 for research and national programs.

Critical medical and scientific research advances what we know about kidney disease, how to prevent and how to manage it. Research is key to the breakthroughs that will change for the better the quality of life for people living with kidney disease.

2012 RESEARCHHIGHLIGHT

In 2012, the BC Branch raised over $860,000 for research

New research looks at the link between quality-of-life assessments and better care for kidney disease patientsThe lives of people with end-stage kidney disease are full of tests, needles and rounds of medication. Patients must learn about changing the food they eat, the best way to hook up to a dialysis machine and how to interpret a range of complicated test results. Eventually, these medical interventions become their new “normal.”

But to a non-renal patient, there’s nothing normal about them, says researcher and registered nurse

Kara Schick Makaroff, who believes the care that end-stage kidney disease patients receive must be responsive to how this “new normal” is playing out in their lives.

“These patients are constantly confronted by their own mortality,” she says. “Finding ways to open up that conversation is as important as getting a needle in just right or adjusting a medication’s dosage. And dialysis is not a minor intervention. How much is it impacting patients’ lives as a whole? How are they doing emotionally? How are their social lives? Their close relationships? We have to look at their quality of life,” she says, “not just at how to manage the disease itself.”

The reason this is important is because the stakes are high, as Kara says: “Patients whose quality of life is poor are more likely to get sicker or to die earlier.”

To help lower those stakes, Kara is doing her postdoctoral fellowship research at the University of Alberta on the benefits of routine quality-of-life

assessments in end-stage kidney disease patients on home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Currently in Canada, there is no requirement for such assessments.

Kara points out that similar research with people living with lung transplants and cancer demonstrates that such patient-centred information leads to improved communication between patients and health care providers, improved care and better outcomes for patients.

Made possible by the Kidney Foundation’s KRESCENT program, Kara’s study is divided into two phases. The first phase, which wrapped up in the spring of 2012, involved surveying and interviewing 56 patients, who were all on some form of home dialysis, at renal clinics in two Vancouver Island hospitals. Kara used iPads to do the surveys and as part of her research, she will be measuring their effectiveness for collecting data from patients in clinic settings.

“We chose home-dialysis patients because they are quite independent in their dialysis, and we wanted to highlight home modalities which tend to be out of the line of sight of both health care professionals and end-stage kidney disease patients,” says Kara.

Kara hopes Phase 2 will be up and running by the end of 2013. The focus this time: how to get the information gathered during Phase 1 into the hands of health care professionals so they can address the quality-of-life issues raised by their patients.

Researchers will then observe the patients and the health care team to gauge whether having access to information about patients’ quality-of-life made a difference to communication, care and outcomes.

Kara says she is grateful to the Kidney Foundation of Canada in more ways than one. “Not only have I received funding for my research, but as Secretary of the Victoria Chapter for the past three years, I’ve had tremendous learning and leadership opportunities.” ■

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One surprise so far: how eager people were to talk to each other. “I’d do the surveys in the waiting rooms,” says Kara, “and often when I asked a patient if there was anything they’d like to share, it would start this whole dialogue. Many of the participants said ‘I’ve never talked to another patient before.’ It opened up this whole sense of community for them.”

Researcher KARA SCHICK MAKAROFF

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Invaluable Volunteers

Every year, more than 7,000 volunteers across British Columbia help support the work of The Kidney Foundation, BC Branch, and give generously of themselves to help improve the lives of those affected by kidney disease.

As a grassroots organization, our success depends heavily on the support from members of the community and we can’t thank them enough for their dedication and outstanding service.

2012 VOLUNTEERSHIGHLIGHT

Over half of our BC Branch volunteers have dedicated over 5 years of service

SHARON MASONMarch Drive Volunteer Canvasser

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In 2012, more than 7,000 BC Branch volunteers knocked on doors, walked, ran and paddled, answered phones, stuffed envelopes, wrote letters, spoke with the media, and organized events in support of kidney patients.

Inspired by a co-worker’s plight two decades ago, one volunteer hits 20-year milestone

For residents of one North Vancouver neighbourhood, the month of March is full of pleasantly familiar things: a hint of warmth in the air, the smell of freshly cut grass, daffodils and tulips bobbing in the gardens—and a knock on the door from Sharon Mason. As a volunteer for the Kidney Foundation’s March Drive Campaign, Sharon, now 65, was 45 years old when she first started collecting donations from the homes in this particular area. She’s been at it for 20 years, long enough to see some of the neighborhood kids grow up and go off to college.

She was first inspired to canvas for the March Drive Campaign when she learned that the daughter of her friend and co-worker needed a kidney transplant. “Bridgette was on dialysis from 5 to 11 at night, three times a week, after working at a stressful job all day,” Sharon says. “She was in her 20s when she had her first transplant and she’s had to have two more since then. There’s just no rhyme or reason to this disease.”

So Sharon does what she can to help, canvasing close to 100 homes annually. Her previous experience as a Customer Service Agent for Air Canada, Air BC and Canadian Pacific Airlines certainly doesn’t hurt, as she says: “I’m good at selling and helping people.

Besides, there are some wonderful, kind people on her route, she says: “Some have donated every year since I started in 1993.”

Beyond the names and the house numbers, Sharon has gotten to know the people who live here and she genuinely cares about them. She knows, for example, that one of her regulars survived a deadly form of brain cancer, that another would have died if not for today’s technology and that one couple’s son did a tour of duty in Iraq.

Those stories firmed up her resolve to continue being a part of the March Drive Campaign.

For how long? “I’ll do it until I can’t walk anymore,” she says. “I just skied 8,000 feet at Whistler, so that could mean another 20 years.”

This is good news for kidney patients and the BC Branch alike, who rely on volunteers like Sharon. Thank you Sharon for your many years of dedicated service to the people we serve at The Kidney Foundation of Canada, BC Branch. ■

VOLUNTEERS

Sharon recently attended the Foundation’s Shine a Light Kidney Gala where she says she was brought to tears by the stories of people who have overcome the adversity of this devastating disease to live full, impassioned lives.

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Last year was a time of change for the 633 BC Branch members of the Kidney Foundation of Canada. With the introduction of the bylaw amendments approved by the National Board of Directors in June 2010, members experienced changes to the Foundation’s governance, including Branch Board composition, voting procedures and Chapter structure.

While change can be daunting, change also offers new possibilities. Last year was a year of learning as members worked their way through these changes to governance.

What did not change; however, was the strong desire and dedication of our members to help people who are affected by kidney disease. They continued their efforts to coordinate events, provide education and outreach to their communities, as well as offer on-going support and encouragement to people with kidney disease and their families—much like the members of the Quesnel Chapter, showcased in this year’s Annual Report.

Chapters & Community Groups: Speaking for People Affected by Kidney Disease

BONNIE LECLERC (front row, centre)with members of the Quesnel Chapter

Four years ago, Quesnel resident Bonnie Leclerc bumped into a former co-worker whose husband had just been diagnosed with kidney disease. “She told me she had no idea where to turn,” Bonnie recalls. As a small community, Quesnel doesn’t have specialized medical services; kidney disease patients are referred to a nephrologist and renal care team at Prince George Hospital only when they go into the later stages of the disease.

Bonnie’s chance meeting that day got her thinking. She’d had a kidney transplant when she was only 19 years old and at 37, when her transplanted kidney began to fail, had started home-dialysis. She knew all about the disease and what a support the Kidney Foundation could be to patients and their families. “I remember thinking how great it would be for the people of Quesnel if we had a Kidney Foundation chapter here,” says Bonnie.

A year later, in October 2008, the Quesnel Chapter of the Kidney Foundation of Canada, BC Branch, was officially born, with Bonnie at the helm as President, a position she held through 2009 and again in 2012. Its role is to enhance awareness of the disease locally, promote organ donation among residents and community organizations, raise funds and provide support to patients and their families.

For Bonnie, it’s all about making sure that people in her community who have kidney disease never feel, like Bonnie’s friend did, that they are on their own. So, there are monthly educational meetings with guest speakers, social events for patients and their families, kidney health fairs, blood pressure clinics and regular organ donation and kidney 101 presentations, some of them to third-year nursing students at the local college. Then there are the fundraisers such as the March Drive Campaign and The Kidney Walk. “We don’t stop, really,” says Bonnie.

She and the entire Chapter, now 39 members strong, are particularly proud of the new Quesnel Community Renal Resource Guide, developed in 2012. “Our group worked very hard to produce this guide, which targets people living with the early stages of kidney disease. It’s intended to help them maintain quality of life right here in our community,” says Bonnie.

The guide includes relevant phone numbers and listings of educational websites and print materials, as well as practical tips, checklists and guides for managing the illness—from people who’ve been there. Printed by Northern Health, it’s distributed through local Chapter members.

In 2013, the Quesnel Chapter hopes to broaden its reach to smaller communities outside Quesnel, communities like Wells to the east and Nazko, an Aboriginal community, to the west. Plans are also in the works to expand the kidney health educational program to include the Lions and Rotary Clubs and local women’s groups.

If the accomplishments to date are any indication, the Quesnel Chapter will meet and more likely exceed these goals. ■

Quesnel Chapter creates community of support for kidney patients

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2012 CHAPTERS &COMMUNITY GROUPS

BC InteriorChinese Renal Association Club Yes (now called Vancouver Kidney Club)Cowichan Valley ChapterEagle Ridge ChapterFraser Valley ChapterMSA – Abbotsford/Upper Fraser Valley ChapterNanaimo ChapterPrince George ChapterQuesnel ChapterVictoria Chapter

CHAPTERS & COMMUNITY GROUPS

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2012 DID YOU KNOW?Over 1,700 British Columbians at high risk for kidney disease have been screened in 37 communities through the targeted screening program to date, and over 22% of those individuals were identified as having early stages of kidney disease

CN reaches out to Canadians at risk of chronic kidney diseaseDonation to Kidney Metals Program boosts national targeted screening initiative

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DAVID YOCHLOWITZ, CEO of ABC Recycling,with his wife VERNA, who received David’s donated kidney

When Nikki Thiessen first heard about the Kidney Foundation’s new Targeted Screening Program called SeeKD, she jumped at the chance to get in on it. As the program coordinator community health worker for the Sexqeltqin (Adams Lake) First Nation’s Health Centre in Chase, BC, Nikki knows first-hand that end-stage kidney disease is more prevalent among Aboriginal people than other Canadian populations. She understood just how much her community could benefit from targeted screening.

“We know that kidney disease is out there and people don’t even know they have it,” she says. “Our goal here at the Health Centre is to do as much prevention and awareness as possible so this was a really good fit for us.”

The BC Branch’s Targeted Screening Program assists at-risk people to take control of their kidney health and in many cases, avoid the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant. SeeKD easily and quickly lets people at risk for kidney disease know their current level of kidney function. Screening Coordinator, Laurie Mark, helps arrange the events, which include nurses on site to test urine samples, blood pressure, blood glucose, Body Mass Index and two kidney function tests.

The Kidney Foundation made it so easy Nikki says: “I did the booking, but pretty well everything else was laid out for us by the SeeKD Program.”

The event at Adams Lake was one of 15 that took place in 2012, bringing the total of at-risk people screened through the program to 552. In all, 40 people from the Adams Lake area were screened. “And nearly everyone told me how grateful they were to have been part of it,” Nikki says.

That’s good news for everyone at CN, who helped make the screening program possible. In the spring of 2011, the company officially pledged out-of-service railcars, valued at $600,000, over a three-year period to the Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Metals Program. Through the program, about 120 decommissioned railcars were earmarked for shearing at the ABC Recycling facility in Burnaby, BC.

The 360 tons of metal sheared so far were sold and all the proceeds were directed to SeeKD, Canada’s first national targeted screening program for people at high risk of chronic kidney disease.

Not a bad return on investment. “We are delighted to be part of such an innovative program, one with significant benefits for those Canadians at high risk for chronic kidney disease,” says Karen Phillips, CN’s Vice President, Public and Government Affairs.

David Yochlowitz, CEO of ABC Recycling has more personal reasons for getting involved: “I definitely see the value of this program. I know from experience how important early detection of chronic kidney disease is to kidney health because 10 years ago I donated a kidney to my wife.”

Of course to all the people screened who go on to live longer, fuller lives because of early detection, it won’t matter why CN or ABC Recycling got involved. It only matters that they did. ■

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Corporate Community Giving HighlightsBritish Columbians with kidney disease depend on Kidney Foundation services. In turn, the Kidney Foundation depends on our generous funders. Here are some highlights of our major corporate and community donors.

We thank every donor for helping the thousands of kidney patients in BC.

2012 CORPORATE COMMUNITYGIVING HIGHLIGHT

CN continued its 3-year pledge of donating out-of-service railcars valued at $600,000 to the Kidney Metals Program in support of Targeted Screening

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Targeted Screening for Kidney DiseaseThousands of British Columbians who are at risk for kidney disease have changed eating habits, visited doctors and brought information about kidney disease home thanks to:

CNKnights of Columbus Surrey 4767Summerland Health Care Auxiliary

Patient Services and Education ProgramFrom emergency hardship grants, to peer support, to patient comforts, we acknowledge the following for their unwavering support:

4 What Matters FoundationCJAD Holdings, Norco Products and Philanthropy Preceptorship FundEECOL Electric Corp.Frank & Yvonne McCracken FoundationHobbs Family FundLagniappe FoundationLohn FoundationMable Chadwick FoundationPacific Blue CrossPacific Nephrology GroupThe Province of British Columbia (through the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch)

For “giving at the office” we thank:

DP WorldHealthpartnersHelping Hands of WorkSafeBCHYDRECS - Community Services FundProvincial Employee Community Services Fund (PECSF)School District No. 35 LangleyTELUS Community Engagement

ResearchFor supporting research into the causes of kidney disease,our thanks go to:

Margaret Rothweiler Charitable Foundation

CORPORATE COMMUNITY GIVING HIGHLIGHTS

Kidney Kids CampFor helping children with kidney disease feel like just a kid again, we applaud:

Chris Spencer FoundationCFAX Santa’s AnonymousCKNW Orphans’ FundHamber FoundationKiwanis Club Vancouver DowntownMcAdams FoundationVariety - The Children’s Charity

Kidney Health and Public EducationFor helping promote health education and awareness via Living Well for Kidney Health and Kidney News newsletters, we thank:

Amgen Canada IncAstellas Pharma CanadaBC Biomedical Laboratories Ltd.Pacific Nephrology Group

Volunteer Leadership DevelopmentFor supporting our dedicated volunteersfrom around the province, we thank:

London Drugs FoundationRBC Foundation

KAREN KOCH (Kidney Foundation) and FRANCES GORMAN (PECSF) educating 300

Lower Mainland provincial employees.

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Donor Recognition We thank every donor for helping the thousands of kidney patients in BC.

Corporations451720 BC LimitedA & J Body Shop (1983) LimitedABC Recycling Inc. - SurreyABC Recycling LimitedAction Metals Recycling Inc.AgropurAll North Consultants LtdAmgen Canada IncAndritz Automation LimitedArlington Hotel Cee Joy Holdings LimitedAssman’s Funeral Chapel LtdAstellas Pharma Canada IncATI TelecomAtlas Chiropractic Inc.Automaster Auto BodyBandstra Transportation Systems Ltd.BC Biomedical Laboratories LtdBest Western Plus Kelowna Hotel & SuitesBestmed TechnicianBMO Investments Inc.Borden Ladner Gervais LLPBuild-RiteC. Keary InvestmentsCafe Michael LimitedCanada Safeway LimitedCanadian Manu Immigration & Financial Services IncCanadian Tire Associate StoreCare Systems Services LimitedCarson Insurance BrokersCentral Drug Stores LimitedChetwynd Fireman’s ClubCJAD Holdings/Norco Products/ Philanthropy Preceptorship FundCNCoastal Community Credit UnionColumbia Glass 1972 LimitedCopies PlusCountry GrocerCovanta Energy CorporationCSH Hampton HouseCut’n Loose Hair DesignDahl Mechanical LimitedDavies Prescription PharmacyDediluke Land SurveyingDennis Dystant TruckingDonex Pharmacy and Department StoreDr. Alex K. H. Chan Inc

Dr. N.A. Konopada IncDr. Stephen R. Crowley Inc. / Dr. Claudio Sansalone Inc.EECOL Electric CorpEndymion Holdings LimitedExact WeldingEZ Access Treatment Wear LtdFinningGairns Santos Engineering Inc.Global SecuritiesH Y Louie Company LimitedHogarth’s Clinic PharmacyHoliday Inn Express & Suites Comox ValleyHollett Roofing And ContractingHub International BartonIngram PharmacyIntegris Credit UnionInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Local 993Investors GroupJ. Bryan Gascon Investments Inc.J. J. H. Enterprise LimitedJet Equipment & Tools (Canada)Jl Crowe Class Of ‘71Johnston Meier Insurance Agencies GroupKal TireKathy McLaughlin & AssociatesKirmac Collision and AutoglassKootenay Savings Credit UnionL Soligo & Associates LimitedL.A. to B.227 R.C.L.Lakelse Financial Group Inc.Lakeside Medical CentreLiving Room PharmacyLondon Drugs FoundationManulife FinancialMBM Management IncMcElhanney Consulting Services LimitedMcInnis Building SuppliesMid Island Kidney AssociationMidlite Power ConstructionMother NaturesMyhorsetails.ComNanaimo Diver OutfittersNew Gold Inc.Northwest & Ethical Investments L.P.Nu-Tech Fire & SafteyOcean Brands GP

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Corporations continued

Pacific Blue CrossPacific Nephrology GroupPark Vision LimitedPatients Like Me Inc.Peace Arch Motors LimitedPeople’s Drug Mart 76 - TLC Pharmacy LimitedPG Surg-Med LimitedPine MeadowsPipers Neighborhood PubPortal Installations 2009 LimitedPreferred Service Customs Brokers Inc.Professional Employees AssociationProgressive VenturesPure Pharmacy VictoriaRBC FoundationRedline Pro Manufacturing Inc.Regnier Holdings Limited - Rex HotelRichmond Driving RangeRiverside Pharmacy LimitedRogers Group Of CompaniesRonaRoyal LepageRunning Room Canada Inc.S.I.I.L Maintenance Inc.Shoppers Drug MartSimon J Warner Medical IncSkaha PharmacySobeys Inc.Staples Business DepotTeck Metals LimitedTek Bookkeeping ServicesTerrace Carpet Centre LimitedTerrace Chrysler/ToyotaThe Garage RestaurantThree Stones Clothing LimitedTim HortonsToxco Waste Management LimitedTurner Volkswagen AudiUnited Steel Workers Local 480Urban Systems FoundationVancouver Coastal HealthVancouver Island BreweryVancouver Premier College of Hotel ManagementVancouver Technical Secondary SchoolVantagOne Credit UnionVernon Civic Employees Union Cupe Local 626Walmart Canada CorpWanes Custom Woodworks Inc.WawanesaWest K Concrete LimitedWindsor Plywood

DONOR RECOGNITION

Employee Groups / SchoolsBC Biomedical Laboratories LtdBC Hydro Employees’ Community Services Fund (HYDRECS)BDO Dunwoody LLPBurnaby Firefighters Charitable Society LtdCanadian Fishing CompanyDP World VancouverHealthpartnersHelping Hands of WorkSafeBCProvincial Employees Community Services FundRBC Royal BankSchool District No. 35 LangleySeafirst Insurance Brokers LtdTeam TELUS CaresTelus CorporationVia Rail Canada Pensioners’ AssociationVia Rail Pensioners AssociationWorkSafeBC

Special FundsProvince of British Columbia Gaming Policy and Enforcement BranchThe Jackie Family Fund

Third Party FundraisersChinese OperaHermann’s Jazz Night FundraiserKidney Community HeroesKidney on the MoveKnowledge for Life FundraiserTrain West Golf Tournament

Endowment FundsBaby Jacob Endowment FundBetty Jarvis Endowment FundBob Smith Endowment FundChanning and Iris Kyer Endowment FundCharles and Adeleine Hill Endowment FundD.E.A.R. Berry Endowment FundDonald A & Barbara J Copan & Helen Thompson Endowment FundDr. Basil M. Plumb Endowment FundJian Shiang Chum Endowment FundJim Biles Endowment FundMargaret-Ann Irwin Endowment FundMay Bostock Endowment FundMorris Family Endowment FundRobert Graham Kay Endowment FundRobin Timmerman Endowment FundRoyal Cnadian Legion, Mount Pleasant Branch #177 Endowment FundRudy Senft Endowment FundSuzanne Maclean Endowment Fund


BequestsEstate of Anne Doreen WellsEstate of Dorene SinclairEstate of Ernest ChanEstate of Frank Hiroshi HoriEstate of Gerald CarsonEstate of James Young JohnstoneEstate of John K. SloanEstate of Mary FentonEstate of Mary HarleyEstate of Mildred Jean WrightEstate of Ona Dorothy HendersonEstate of Pasquale FocinaEstate of Ruth I. HamiltonHenriette and Leonard White Endowment FundMcGrane - Pearson Endowment Fund

Foundations4 What Matters FoundationAndrew Mahon FoundationCedar Springs FoundationC-FAX Santas Anonymous SocietyChimp FoundationChris Spencer FoundationCJAD Holdings/Norco Products/ Philanthropy Preceptorship FundCKNW Orphans’ FundDonald Matheson and Audrey Matheson FundEllinor Richards and Hazel Richards Loane FundFrank & Yvonne McCracken FoundationGoel Family Charitable FoundationJohn and Nancy Woodworth FundKen Birdsall FundKnights of Columbus (BC) Charity FoundationLagniappe FoundationLions Gate Hospital FoundationLohn FoundationLondon Drugs FoundationMable Chadwick FoundationMargaret Rothweiler Charitable FoundationMcAdams FoundationRaymond James FoundationRBC FoundationRudi & Sylvia Hoenson FoundationThe Charros FoundationThe Hamber FoundationVanCity Community FoundationVariety - The Children’s Charity of BCVictoria Foundation

DONOR RECOGNITION

Individuals ($250+)AnonymousAnonymousAnonymousMarionGrahamE. EdvardBarbaraAnnAudreyGregoryOlinDanielLeslieDaveMichaelKashmirAnnJillMargaretKimLeanneBrianSheronTracyLindaMarieStevenKatyRoyAnnLauraAdamPalleCarolynCraigConnieStevenAliceMargoOrvalDaveElayneRaymondAdaMagdaleneDavidPaulPhilEdna MaeKatrinePatriciaLauraJohnMyrna

AitkenAllanAndersonAndersonAndersonAndertonAntoineAntonArissArnoldAtwalAudainAujlaBatchelarBates-SmithBatkeBennettonBerryBlameyBlewettBodgerBonner-BrownBonzaiBoshierBostockBostockBrinkhurstBrownBruceBuchBuksaBushellButermanCampbellCarfraeCarsonChapmanCharlesworthChengCheungCheungChungClarkCmikieiwiczCollinsConderConroyCoputoCraigDavisDe Guzman

CassandraJoseAnantJanisLesKyleJohnHarriettLizDelbertDorothyMorrisChristopherUrsulaLizDannyPeterDavieRuthJacquelineDougEthelSusanDavidShawnDougLindaCharlieGarrettTomEdwinRobertPatriciaBLorraineJohnGeoffreyBarryMarcMyrnaJamesKellyBillAnneVivianKicholSeanDorisRandyHeatherScottRoyElizabethElizabeth

De Moor SelbyDecastro-AlvesDhillonDionneDoellDuncanDuncanDunnEdingerEgilsonEliasErgasEvansEvansEwartEylesFaireyFarmsFarrenFennerFerneFieilFindlayFlemingFlynnFoleyFonckFontaineFowlerFriedmanFroeseFullerGateyGattoGerardGillGlotmanGoldsmithGoldsteinGopaulsinghGopaulsinghGreeneGreenhalghHaigHaitirasHanHennisHingleyHnatkoHockleyHoffmanHolgateHollandHolmes

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DONOR RECOGNITION

SWNeilColleenMariaKateBeckyHalPatsyMorrisonDaveDaleLaurenRobertNormanMaryTomHeatherStellaLloydAngelaTBeverlyStuartJoanRogerKevinMaureenBruceRobertKarenHildeSidNuLetticiaSandraJohnGillianElginMargaretSharonClinaJustinAdeeraAnnickEdmundDavid Ying KitFeifeiTammyBarbaraJacquelineRobinDebbieLovelynRosalinda

HolmesHoppHowardHsuHuffmanHughsonHughsonHuiHurleyHuttonJackJackieJagoJeppesenJiangJohnerJohnsonJonesJonesJorgensenJoyceJungKeepingKeevilKeransKerneyKiddKirkeKivellKochKrauseKwantesKwokKwongKwongLakesLangLawsonLebeufLecomteLeeLerouxLevinLimLimLiuLiuLiuLockhartLonghurstLowryLupulMacalandaMacalanda

JuneJohnGrahamAndrewNavjitPatriciaFrankNoraKevinLornaRobertRobertGerardM RuthGlendaKenDavidJo-AnneMagdaleneBruceGaryRoseSheldonAdolfoWilliamIreneHermannLorneGloriaLyndaLucilleHafezPatrickAnneLukeRickJanetEdSandraDavidDonaldShannonMarioEricPhilipJohnDavidHollyKennethJasdeepRanoopPatriciaHelenTerrence

MacGregorMackayMacmillanMacRitchieMalhiMariniMaximclukMcAfeeMcculloughMcDowellMcGillMcGillMcKenzieMcRaeMensahMerkleyMillerMillerMokMontadorMorkMykesNaimanNerprioNickelNielsonNiewelerNixonNobleNottePallardPanjuParfreyPaterson-WelshPathyilPesklevitsProwseQuiltyRainvilleRamalhoRapeerRhodesRichardRobinsonRosarioRoseRussellRussellRyanSandhuSandhuSauderSawchukScanlan

LeonardPiaFredWendyHarryNormanKarenWilliamMarianBarrieAAgnesRandyIreneDavidMurrayPeterEileenEricPatrickPaulEileenLyndaDeannaJeanBrianSamPaigePatrickPaulineAnthonyLoreneMargaretSandraDavidJamesMollieCarolLoisGlenBonnieGertieMattPaulCathy Kit FunMorrisBettyCindyRuthTeresa

ScheinSchindlerSeiffertSimSkeltonSladeSmithSmithSmithSmytheSneddonSorrentiSpensleyStevensStewartStewartStoreySueSunTamTaylorTaylorTerryThomsonThorpeTipperToaTracey-WelwoodUrekarVanderDriesscheVant GeloofVernonWahlWestoverWestrheimWhiteWilliamsWilliamsWilsonWilsonWinjeWongWongWongWongWugalterYoungYoungYoungYuen

Individuals ($250+) continued


Service ClubsCan-Ital Ladies SocietyCN Pensioners Association # 8Columbia Shuswap Power PioneersCreston Trinity Housing SocietyDragon Lake Womens Inst.Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2096Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2101Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 22Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 3032Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 3318Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 3557Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 4400Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary 20Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary 2096Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary 3318Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary 4281Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary 4400Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladysmith Auxiliary 2101German Canadian Harmonie ClubGyro Vernon ClubIODE Dr. W.J. KnoxKamloops Ridge Runners SocietyKelowna Professional Firefighters Charitable SocietyKiwanis Club of VancouverKiwanis Club TrailKnights of Columbus Chilliwack Council 3478Knights of Columbus Kelowna 6233 Father deLestreKnights of Columbus Surrey 4767Laureate Alpha AlphaLioness Club ParksvilleLioness Club WestbankLioness Club White RockLions Club BarriereLions Club Burnaby LougheedLions Club Chilliwack Mount CheamLions Club Comox ValleyLions Club ElkfordLions Club Enderby & DistrictLions Club EsquimaltLions Club Galiano IslandLions Club GibsonsLions Club GuildfordLions Club HopeLions Club Kamloops PaddlewheelersLions Club LadysmithLions Club Lake WindermereLions Club Nanoose BayLions Club Royal OakLions Club Salt Spring IslandLions Club Society North KamloopsLions Club Vancouver PacificLions Club West ShoreLions Club Willow Point

DONOR RECOGNITION

Mid-Island Consumer Services Co-operativeMOE Social Committee - LondonMount Cheam Lions ClubNanaimo Harbor Lites Lioness ClubNorthern Ireland Social ClubOrder of Royal Purple 123Order of Royal Purple 279Order of Royal Purple Surrey Lodge 249Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 14Order of The Eastern Star Chapter 40Osoyoos United Church, Dorcas UnitPythian Sisters Vernon Temple 21Royal Canadian Legion Ashcroft Br 113 Ladies AuxiliaryRoyal Canadian Legion Bowser Br 211 Ladies AuxiliaryRoyal Canadian Legion Castlegar Br 170Royal Canadian Legion Chase Br 107Royal Canadian Legion Cloverdale Br 6Royal Canadian Legion Ladysmith Br 171Royal Canadian Legion Lillooet Br 66 Ladies AuxillaryRoyal Canadian Legion Maple Ridge Br 88Royal Canadian Legion Nakusp Br 20Royal Canadian Legion Prince George Br 43 Ladies AuxiliaryRoyal Canadian Legion Princeton Br 56 Ladies AuxiliaryRoyal Canadian Legion Quesnel Br 94 Ladies AuxiliaryRoyal Canadian Legion Sooke Br 54Royal Canadian Legion Summerland Br 22 Ladies AuxiliaryRoyal Canadian Legion Surrey Br 8Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Vancouver BranchSons of Scotland Benevolent AssociationSons of Scotland Benevolent Association, Balgownie Camp 204Sons of Scotland Benevolent District 16Sons of Scotland Benevolent Kildonnan Camp 166Soo Yuen SocietySummerland Health-Care AuxiliarySurrey Firefighters Charitable SocietyTexada Women’s Island Network (T.W.I.N)The Lighthouse Christian Academy SocietyThe Victoria Germans from Russia Historical SocietyTrinidad & Tobago Cultural Society of BCTrinity Lodge No.98United Scottish Cultural SocietyWomen of the Moose Chapter 936 Prince George

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BOARD

2012 Board of Directors of the BC Branch

EXECUTIVEPresident: Dr. Morrison HurleyVice President: Judith Thompson, Doug Hobbs*Vice President/Secretary: Ron Walker Treasurer: Ric Leong Immediate Past President: Glen Wilson

*Sadly, Doug Hobbs passed away in 2012

DIRECTORS AT LARGEDr. Michael Copland, Medical AdvisorPaul DuperronAnne SchultzKen Wiecke

REGIONAL DIRECTORSDavid Ramalho and Lois Wilson from Fraser HealthTeresa Atkinson and Edna Humphreys from the InteriorBryndel Fell and Bonnie Leclerc from the NorthDennis McCaan from Vancouver CoastalLinda Fonck and Ken Merkley from Vancouver Island

Note: there are currently two vacancies on the Branch Board: a Director at Large and a Regional Director from Vancouver Coastal.

STAFF AT THE BC BRANCH John Breeden, AccountantClaudine Fernandes, Administrative Assistant Lorraine Gerard, Executive Director*Marie Hesse, Senior Development Officer Heather Johnson, Director of ProgramsKaren Koch, Senior Development OfficerTracy Riddell, Data Development AssistantPia Schindler, Director of DevelopmentDeborah Tucker, Manager of CommunicationsBarbara Valentine, Special Events CoordinatorVincent Wong, Fundraising Coordinator

*Lorraine stepped down from her Executive Director position in November to take on another exciting challenge. We wish Lorraine every success in her role.

The Kidney Foundation of Canada (BC Branch) for the year ended December 31, 2012

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS AND FUND BALANCES 2012 2011

REVENUE Public support 1,602,603 1,538,173 Corporate and individual donations 602,489 598,144 Planned giving and in memoriam 932,450 426,056 Investment income 9,995 11,184

3,147,537 2,573,557

Fundraising expenses 1,082,119 1,035,318

Net Revenue 2,065,418 1,538,239

EXPENDITURES Foundation programs Patient services 298,535 299,736 Organ donation 198,061 163,921 Public education and communications 231,459 264,477 Foundation development 107,419 121,182 Management and general 97,112 115,416 Contributions to National research, programs and support services 860,260 503,284

1,792,846 1,468,016

(Deficiency) excess of revenue over expenditures 272,573 70,223 Fund balance, beginning of year* 645,749 575,526

Fund balance, end of year* 918,322 645,749

BALANCE SHEET 2012 2011Current assets 1,536,069 1,280,166 Capital assets 54,368 82,255

Total assets 1,590,437 1,362,421

Current liabilities 200,213 164,522 Deferred contributions and deferred rent 434,270 506,862 Tenant inducement allowance 37,632 45,288 Fund balance, end of year 918,322 645,749

Total liabilities and fund balances 1,590,437 1,362,421

* Attributed to the Kidney Foundation of Canada Fund Balance.

The data on this page has been extracted and summarized from the reviewed financial statements. Detailed financial statements are available from the BC Branch office.

FINANCIALS

26 KIDNEY FOUNDATION BC BRANCH / 2012 / ANNUAL REPORT / HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of 2012

43 children

PROGRAMS & SERVICESHIGHLIGHT

Sent 43 children living with kidney disease to Kidney Camp for Kids for a week.

over 50% VOLUNTEERHIGHLIGHT

Over half of our BC Branch volunteers have dedicated over 5 years of service

75,000 doorsFUNDRAISINGHIGHLIGHT

Last year over 3,000 canvassers knocked on more than 75,000 doors across British Columbia raising $331,000


Supported 30 post-transplant adults and families with accommodation in our Kidney Suites


Supported 247 people with kidney disease with over $61,000 in grants to help those who do not have the resources necessary to manage a sudden emergency expense

$303,000 FUNDRAISINGHIGHLIGHT

More than 3,800 Kidney Walk participants and volunteers in 19 BC communities raised over $303,000—the best result ever in its five year history

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BC Branch Honoured with Three Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Winners

On February 6, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II marked the 60th anniversary of her accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada—an occasion marked only once before by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, in 1897.

In celebration of this event, a commemorative medal was created to recognize outstanding Canadians of all ages and from all walks of life, people who have built and continue to build our caring society and country through their service, contributions and achievements.

The Kidney Foundation of Canada was allocated 30 medals for presentation according to the eligibility criteria established by The Chancellery of Honours. Three of the winners are from the BC Branch: Lorraine Gerard, Executive Director; Ken Merkley, Board Member, and Glen Wilson, Board Member.

3 MEDALS DIAMONDJUBILEEHIGHLIGHT

Diamond Jubilee Recipients receive medal from Dr. Morrison Hurley, BC Board President.L - R: Glen Wilson, Lorraine Gerard, Dr. Morrison Hurley and Ken Merkley

$860,000 RESEARCHHIGHLIGHT

In 2012, the BC Branch raised over $860,000 for research

$750,000PROGRAMS & SERVICESHIGHLIGHT

LODERP has provided $750,000 in funding since 2006 to 660 individuals

2,500 FUNDRAISINGHIGHLIGHT

Over 2,500 cars were donated to the Kidney Car Program, raising over $356,000

7,000 VOLUNTEERHIGHLIGHT

In 2012, more than 7,000 BC Branch volunteers knocked on doors, walked, ran and paddled, answered phones, stuffed envelopes, wrote letters, spoke with the media, and organized events in support of kidney patients


The Kidney Foundation of Canada, BC Branch200 - 4940 Canada Way Burnaby, BC V5G 4K6 phone toll free: 1-800-567-8112 fax toll free: 1-800-667-8871

www.kidney.bc.ca

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