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Societi, The UK Foundation for Kawasaki Disease

Emergency Appeal - Kawasaki Disease Awareness! Help us protect tiny hearts

With Kawasaki Disease in the spotlight during Covid-19, we URGENTLY need funding so we can continue supporting families, sharing trusted medical advice & getting Kawasaki Disease known! Help us protect children from this devastating disease!
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Closed on 03/03/2024
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Emergency Appeal!

With Kawasaki Disease hitting the headlines like never before during the Covid-19 pandemic, weve been flooded with questions and concerns from worried families, anxious parents and people of all ages with a history of Kawasaki Disease. Were working to respond to media enquiries coming in every day from all over the world - and theres an URGENT need to get trusted FACTS shared quickly to educate doctors and reassure worried families.

As a small charity we are **struggling** to cope. With no Government funding or grant support at all, we are completely reliant on donations and fundraisers. Right now our resources are at an all-time low! Yet our work to protect children from Kawasaki Disease, the LEADING cause of acquired heart disease in UK children, has NEVER been more important.

We MUST continue! We URGENTLY need to:

Keep helping worried parents and affected families

Provide URGENTLY needed support to doctors in hospitals where there are Covid-19 clusters - helping them diagnose Kawasaki Disease correctly and quickly

Share and promote trusted medical advice - QUICKLY!

Get Kawasaki Disease known!! To make sure that children affected dont get overlooked, with devastating consequences, in the Covid-19 crisis

Respond carefully and factually to media and press enquiries

Be a strong voice in UK and Ireland research work to help understand Covid-19 and Paediatric Inflammation Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS)

We simply CANT do this alone. We NEED YOUR HELP NOW!

Please help us protect children's tiny hearts!! They need you, we need you NOW! Please donate ! THANK YOU!

About the charity

Kawasaki disease is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the UK and the western world. It's time we changed that. We have an enormous task to do. But we are going to do it. TOGETHER we will. Join us and help us protect tiny hearts. You can make a difference. Awareness of this often pernicious disease is currently poor. Slow diagnosis and delayed treatment of Kawasaki Disease can cause serious, life-long health issues. Children affected by Kawasaki Disease have excellent chances of a good recovery with timely diagnosis and the correct treatment. At Societi we know that recognising Kawasaki Disease early is THE transformational opportunity to prevent what can be devastating effects from Kawasaki Disease. Kawasaki Disease has lots of symptoms in common with other childhood illnesses so it is often misdiagnosed - this means lifelong heart damage for too many children. Each year in the UK there are more cases of Kawasaki Disease than bacterial meningitis! Everyone would spot meningitis and know what to do, because of brilliant awareness raising work by MRT. We need everyone to recognise Kawasaki Disease too.

Donation summary

Total raised
£24,104.74
+ £3,104.05 Gift Aid
Online donations
£13,876.74
Offline donations
£6,803.00
Direct donations
£1,785.00
Donations via fundraisers
£15,516.74

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