Transplants – Help the Poor Foundation Announces Association with Ketto

by Shrutee K/DNS

Mumbai, 12^th Dec 2017:Transplants – Help the Poor Foundation, a Mumbai-based NGO that has been working towards assisting the lesser privileged in having equal access to organ transplantation today announced its association with Asia’s most visited online crowd funding platform Ketto. Transplants, through its programme JEET (Joint Effort to Enable Transplants), along with Ketto aims to crowd-source funds for those who are in dire need for organ transplant, and cannot afford it.

India has, historically, had a very low rate of organ donation. Although this number has improved over the past three-four years, the gap is very wide. As per most recent reports, more than 20,000 individuals are in need of liver transplants in the country. However, less than 5% of these receive a liver before it is too late, with over 80% receiving a liver from a living related donor. The requirement for liver, kidney and heart transplants stands at three lakh annually, of which only around 8,000 manage to receive a transplant, with almost 90 percent receiving a living donor transplant. For patients waiting for a heart cut out and lung transplant, the chances of finding an organ is very small, at around 5 percent or even less.

Prof (Dr) Darius Mirza, MS, FRCS and Co-founder of Transplants - Help the poor Foundation, expressing his joy, said: "We are glad that Ketto has stepped forward to support this worthy cause. In the case of organ donation, awareness is as important as donation. So, Ketto is actually helping us twice over. And, I am confident that this association will help to attain equal access to organ transplantation through funds collected from the public and corporates. Awareness about the extent of the problem will also bridge the gap between demand and availability of donated organs for transplants.”

Also, speaking on this association, Mr. Varun Sheth – Co-Founder & CEO, Ketto, said: We are thrilled that our platform is able to partner with an inspiring NGO who is involved in such noble work. We are confident of being able to leverage our credibility among the financially sound to convince them to give open-heartedly, as also using out wide network of supporters to raise awareness about the problem of organ shortage among the people who matter. We look forward to collaborating with Transplants – Help the Poor Foundation, and being a part of this great cause.

The campaign is live on - https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/helpramlive

About Transplants – Help the Poor Foundation

Transplants - Help the Poor (HTP) is a non-profit Foundation formed for the sole purpose of enabling organ transplants and help the poor get equal access to organ transplantation through funds collected from public at large and from the corporate sector. The foundation recently announced its association with Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation. The joint initiative has been launched with an endeavour to promote and counsel families on altruistic deceased organ donation. Under this association – Transplants HTP, through its programme called JEET (Joint Effort to Enable Transplants) along with MOHAN, will engage in providing transplant coordinator services to non-transplant hospitals. Transplants – Help the Poor Foundation has been created by the most eminent `Mumbaikars’ in various fields.

About Ketto- Ketto is Asia’s most trusted online crowd funding space for different causes and is based in Mumbai, India. It was founded on 15 August 2012 by Varun Sheth along with Bollywood actor Kunal Kapoor and later joined by ZaheerAdenwala. In its first year, Ketto raised INR 4.5 million for 18 campaigns. Their causes ranged from education, creative, health, sports to women’s empowerment and many more.