Kidney care should not depend on what you can afford.
SAS Dial Foundation exists so that Ugandans living with kidney failure can reach dialysis, nephrology care and early screening — regardless of income. We carry forward the renal and haemodialysis programme begun at SAS Lweza Clinic, now as an independent foundation with its own board and its own mandate.
When the kidneys fail, time is measured in sessions.
A patient in end-stage kidney disease needs haemodialysis several times a week, every week, for life or until a transplant. Miss the sessions and the illness moves quickly. In Uganda the treatment exists — but for most families the cost of sustaining it does not.
That is the gap this foundation was formed to close. Not by building something new from nothing, but by taking a renal programme that already treats patients and giving it the independent structure, governance and funding base it needs to grow.
- Acute kidney injury, where fast treatment can mean full recovery
- Chronic kidney disease, where early detection changes the outcome
- End-stage kidney disease, where dialysis is the difference between life and loss
Give a session. Give a week. Give a month.
Support for this programme is counted in treatments, not in slogans. These are the sponsorship levels the programme already runs on.
Four things, done properly.
Subsidised dialysis
Haemodialysis for patients with acute kidney injury and end-stage kidney disease who cannot meet the full cost of treatment.
Early screening
A chronic disease screening programme for the surrounding community, so kidney disease is found before it becomes irreversible.
Nephrology care
Specialist consultations, chronic kidney disease management and tunnelled dialysis catheter placement as the programme expands.
Capacity and training
Strengthening the renal skills of the clinical team so that quality care is not limited by the number of people who can deliver it.
A programme that was already saving lives, given its own home.
The renal clinic and haemodialysis programme was launched and hosted by SAS Lweza Clinic in Seguku, a licensed medical facility operating since 2012. The clinic carried it while it found its feet.
SAS Dial Foundation is now being established as a separate, independent organisation — its own registration, its own board, its own accounts — so that the programme can raise funds in its own name, report to its own trustees, and answer to the patients it serves.
SAS Lweza Clinic remains the clinical partner where treatment is delivered. The foundation is the body that funds it and holds it to account.
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The founding principle inherited from SAS Lweza ClinicThere is more than one way in.
Give
A one-off gift or a standing monthly sponsorship. Every level is tied to a number of treatments, so you know what your money did.
Give now
Partner
Companies, congregations, diaspora groups and health organisations can underwrite a screening outreach or a block of dialysis sessions.
Partner with us
Volunteer
Nephrologists, renal nurses, technicians, fundraisers and trustees. Clinical and non-clinical hands are both needed.
Offer your timeForty dollars is one session. One session is one more week.
Kidney failure does not pause while funding is arranged. If you can give, give today; if you cannot, send this page to somebody who can.