Save the Date: 2019 Bike to the Moon
Bike to the Moon with the PKD Foundation of Canada from June 21-24, 2019!
Build relationships, have fun & make a difference in the Corner Brook PKD community!
Join the PKD Foundation of Canada's Corner Brook Chapter and help us spread awareness, support PKD patients and make a difference in our community.
Ongoing chapter activities include:
- Silent auctions and raffle events
- PKD Awareness Day BBQ
- Other local fundraising events
- Increasing awareness of PKD
- Educational chapter meetings
- Support groups & socials
The PKD Foundation of Canada chapters and the volunteers who lead them are the backbone of the polycystic kidney disease (PKD) community.
As a grassroots non-profit organization, the PKD Foundation of Canada prides itself in keeping administration costs low and impact high. In order to do this, we count on volunteers every day to help drive vital programs and awareness around Canada.
Sign up below to become a volunteer!
Meet Your Chapter Coordinator
Meet Nina Young
Nina is the Corner Brook Chapter Coordinator. She was diagnosed with PKD at the age of 12. Since then, she's witnessed six of her nine family members pass as a result of the disease, including her mother.
Despite her prognosis, regular hospital visits and frequent complications, Nina is committed to spreading awareness and helping to find a cure for PKD.
Read Nina's interview with CBC for her full story here
Read Nina's interview with CBC for her full story here
Updated Canadian Expert Consensus Published to Guide Optimal Management of ADPKD
ADPKD is the most common inherited renal disorder worldwide, impacting approximately 1 in every 500 Canadians. An estimated 45% to 70% of patients with ADPKD progress to end-stage renal disease by age 65 years.
Happy Holidays From the PKD Foundation of Canada
With 2018 drawing to a close, we hope you remember the PKD Foundation of Canada in your holiday plans and consider making a year-end gift to help advance Canadian research, advocacy and support for PKD Warriors like Hailey-Ann, and their families.
PKD Awareness Day: Video Challenge
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2018 Bike to the Moon Campaign Wrap Up
In 2016, an Ontario family impacted by PKD for generations got together with their friends to bike the Bruce Trail in an effort to raise money for PKD research. They travelled 480 km and raised over $11,000. This year, Bike to the Moon participants across Canada travelled over 4,000 km...
PKD Awareness Day: Local Proclamations
Each year, Health Canada recognizes September 4th as National PKD Awareness Day! This year we are looking for volunteers who want to help spread awareness in their own communities by working with us to secure local proclamations.
2017 Canadian PKD Symposium is Now Online
On November 25, 2017 we held our biennial Canadian PKD Symposium, which included participants from the PKD medical community and various renal healthcare centres, as well as PKD patients, their families and loved ones.
PKD Foundation of Canada Awarded the Upper Canada Medal
On Monday, April 9, the PKD Foundation of Canada attended the Can-SOLVE CKD SPOR Initiative reception where we were awarded the Pewter Upper Canada Medal by the Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation for our support of Dr. York Pei’s Hereditary Kidney Disease Clinic at Toronto General Hospital.
We wish to share this prestigious honour with every volunteer and donor who has joined in the fight to end PKD, furthered our mission and helped to advance critical Canadian research of PKD.
History of the medal: The Upper Canada Medal was originally created by the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada to provide recognition of distinguished service and bravery to volunteer soldiers in the War of 1812.
Recognizing an even greater need, the Loyal and Patriotic Society decided to reduce the medals to gold bullion for the establishment, in 1829, of the original Toronto General Hospital.
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundations continue to honour both the original intent of the medals - to recognize distinguished service - and their later role - to support the greater good.
Many thanks to the Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation for this recognition.