# Transplant Education for Living Legacies, TELL, highlights children living with chronic kidney disease and the urgent need for organ donation. South Africa commemorates Kidney Awareness Week this week. According to the organisation, SA has one of the world’s lowest donor rates. Its managing director, Stella de Kock, says Awareness Week encourages early detection, family discussions on donation, and consideration of living donation. Over eight-thousand South Africans await life-saving transplants, including 40 children:
National Kidney Awareness Week protects children, promotes donation [SOUND]
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