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FURTHER INFORMATION

ore Than a Match is part of Gift of Living Donation (GOLD)
Man organization set up by the author in 2011, to increase
the number of living kidney donors in the UK. One way they hope

to achieve this is by a step-by-step workshop to the practicalities
of being a living kidney donor for the family and friends of a loved
one with kidney failure. This workshop is a unique and innovative
way to bring their closest friends and family together so that they
will learn all there is to know about living kidney donation in the
hope one of them will come forward as their living donor.
The relaxed atmosphere allows a great deal of time for the group

to talk openly about their fears, concerns and ask questions. It’s also
a chance for them to understand how their loved one or friend deals
with the daily challenges of living with the illness, as well as how a
transplant would change their life.
We believe the workshop offers a solution to the growing need for
more living donors in the UK as it opens up lines of communication for
living donation to be discussed with a group of people who otherwise
never would have considered being donors. We know being a living
donor is not an easy task and is an unlikely position many would

have found themselves in before, for this reason Dela Idowu draws on

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