From Gift to Gifts Charity Concert 2014 by LEO SMK Damansara Jaya #CC14

      Hey guys! It has been awhile since i've blogged! This blog post will be about the charity concert that us Leos organized. We put a lot of effort and worked hard every week for this huge event to be a great success! This concert is cordially organized by the members of the Leo Club of SMK Damansara Jaya with the objective of purchasing a dialysis machine for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). This project also aims to give an opportunity to the members of Leo Club of SMK Damansara Jaya to organize a huge and meaningful project like this.

Here's the poster that you probably have seen many times around the school areas! 

      Some of you might ask, "Why do you want to help the National Kidney Foundation?". Well, the answer for that question is right here!

- In NKF, patients pay only RM50.00 for each dialysis treatment – where another RM50.00 is subsidized by Ministry of Health; and the remaining RM52.70 is subsidized by NKF via our daily fundraising efforts. The cost for each dialysis treatment is RM152.70.
- NKF is a non-profit charity organization; thus, fundraising is an important component so that we can channel aide to the needy and sustain the organization.
- NKF’s patients are generally from the lower income group and these patients often could not afford dialysis treatments at private medical facilities which usually charge RM150 to RM250 for each dialysis sessions. NKF helps by subsidizing the cost of the patients’ dialysis treatments, so that they are only required to pay a RM50 nominal fee per dialysis session.
- Every year, NKF needs to raise RM12 million to subsidies the dialysis treatments cost for 1558 patients who seek treatment at our 28 dialysis centers nationwide (as at November 2013). With the generous and kind support from various organizations and the public through donations, grants and various forms of financial support, we are able to subsidies the treatment cost for the patients on dialysis.

      What happened during the concert? Here are the list of performances that did spectacular that night. Well done, performers! We even had DJ Ivan from Fly.FM as our emcee for the night! 

      It was a great experience for me helping out with this huge event. If you were there on the 23rd, THANK YOU FOR COMING! I hope you had a great time.