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National Kidney Patient Fund

With your support, the National Kidney Patient Fund will provide financial support to those individuals and families who have been adversely affected by Chronic Kidney Disease in the rural areas of Sri Lanka.

Chronic Kidney Disease

Due to the use of chemical pesticides and the incorporation of heavy metals in the water table present in the North Central province and adjoining provinces ,also  due to the consumption of this water by local residents , Chronic kidney disease or CKD is an epidemic that is fast spreading.  Within the last 8 to 10 years this epidemic has been one of the most serious health concerns in sri lanka. Since the root cause for this illness was not found until recently it was known as the Unidentified kidney disease. The difference with this kidney disease and other kidney diseases is that the patient does not show any symptoms for a long period of time, and are hidden from view . Eventually  ending in death . specifically young individuals and individuals who are in the agriculture industry , who are between the ages of 40 and 60 are the most susceptible. The disease was first reported in 1992 and since that there have been reports of thousands of cases 

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Dialysis kidney patient with the disease.
A kid is drinking water with the support of pure water project.
Finding drinking water is a very hard task for them.
They have to go miles on bicycles for fetching drinking water.
Even kids have to go far for finding drinking water.
Agriculture Chemicals are the main reason for poisoned water.
Abandoned tube well.
The main livelihood is farming.
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Really we have seen this pure water project on the internet. We saw how much our people are suffering. Absolutely we were very sensitive at this time and everybody from our society said, they had tears in their eyes. Sincerely we felt mercy on them. We decided, however we have to be contribute for this.
Mrs. Rukshika Perera
Mrs. Rukshika PereraWomen Committee Sri Lanka Association of Norway
When we are reclining, you've a solution for avoiding this long-lasting kidney disease and smile of your fed up faces, We feel great pleasure. The publicity given by Shraddha Media Network for this program, is very attractive.
Mr. Saduni Rajapaksha
Mr. Saduni Rajapaksha Engineer Synopsis Company.
One girl from Girithalegama told me, we receive water from two tap lines. One from the water board and other from well. we don't know from which line we drink at that time. But it can't drink, it has a murky taste. Most of the times what we are doing, we keep fast rest of the time after finish the bottle we taken from home.
Mr. Chandrarathna Pallegama
Mr. Chandrarathna Pallegama A director General of CSD
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