World Children's Transplant Fund  
 
 
 
 

"When the children of our world die needlessly and without hope, a piece of us dies with them whether we know it or not. And when we help just one to live, we find a small piece of immeasurable, indescribable joy."

--Mark A. Kroeker
Founder, WCTF

 

Welcome to WCTF.org

The World Children's Transplant Fund (WCTF), is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of pediatric transplantation around the world. Lack of financing for the transplant operations, and especially for post-operation treatment, is one of the major problems in every country.

What WCTF Does

  • Raises funds to establish pediatric transplant centers in the countries that do not have them.

  • Helps the existing transplant centers finance operations on children.

  • Helps purchase necessary equipment and drugs for the transplant hospitals.

  • Helps organize appropriate training for the transplant surgeons and coordinators.

  • Helps organize organ donation campaigns.

Our mission is to provide the opportunity for life-saving organ transplants to children of the world. Now, we need your support to help these many children. Costs vary as each transplantation is unique. Minimally, however, a family trying to save the life of their child is looking at an immense financial burden.

You Can Help! As we move further into the 21st century, we are looking forward to the day when the opportunity for life-saving organ transplants to children of the world is the norm, not the exception. This requires your help. Your kindness will be remembered in the smile of a child. Please donate or volunteer.


How You Can Help

Become a Financial Donor

Contributions to WCTF are tax-deductible. You may donate by mailing your contribution to WCTF at the address on our contact page or by using PayPal's secure payment gateway to send a contribution.

If you would like to make a contribution online, you may do so quickly and easily through PayPal's secure payment gateway. Click the Donate button at the left.

Major credit cards are accepted, and you are not required to create a PayPal account to complete the process. You will be redirected to WCTF.org after the transaction.

To specify a particular project for your donation, please indicate so during the payment process.

Become a Volunteer

Please contact us for individual volunteer opportunities.

Become an Organ Donor

“Each organ and tissue donor saves or improves the lives of as many as 50 people. Giving the ‘Gift of Life’ may lighten the grief of the donor's own family. Many donor families say that knowing other lives have been saved helps them cope with their tragic loss.” Visit: OrganDonor.gov.

 

 

CURRENT NEWS

WCTF Hosts Awards Dinner
WCTF hosted its first annual Global Partners Awards Dinner at the Sheraton Universal Hotel on May 12, 2011. The purpose of the event, emceed by Lorenzo Lamas, was to honor Carroll Shelby, Dr. Vartkes Najarian, and executive directors from Mexico and Armenia, Dr. Federico Mendoza Sanchez and Maria Yeganian, respectively. News and pictures available here.

OLDER NEWS

WCTF Hosts Fundraising Dinner
WCTF is hosting a dinner to welcome and honor Dr. Gegham Poghosyan and Dr. Davit Dallakyan, who are visiting from Armenia for six months of training in pediatric liver transplantation. [more]

WCTF Partners with USC
WCTF is providing funding for Dr. Gegham Poghosyan and Dr. Davit Dallakyan, both of Armenia, to receive specialized pediatric transplant training at the USC University Hospital in Los Angeles. [more]

WCTF Project Mexico
The World Children’s Transplant Fund just began “Project Mexico” in 2009. The team has visited the Guadalajara area, met with a Hospital Director and Transplant Surgeons in Mexico, and visited Mexican Hospitals at various socio-economic levels. [more]

 
 


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