page_title: Kidney Education Foundation
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kidney Education Foundation / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Book release of 'Save Your Kidney' in Chinese.
context_page_description: The Kidney Education Foundation is a health awareness organization focused on kidney diseases. It provides information about the prevention and care of kidney diseases through books and websites currently translated in 37 international languages.
  The organization has been founded by an Indian nephrologist, Dr Sanjay Pandya, in 2010 to create awareness about kidney disease prevention primarily through free access to information to the general population. For this common cause, nephrologists across the globe have joined this mission, including many leaders of the international nephrology community such as Dr Giuseppe Remuzzi, Past-President of the International Society of Nephrology, who prepared the Italian version and Dr Guillermo García-García, President of the International Federation of Kidney Foundations, who prepared the Spanish version of the book and website.
  The book and website offer comprehensive information about common kidney-related disorders, and their prevention and care on a single platform in many different languages.
  The American Society of Nephrology published an extensive article in March 2020, recognising the Foundation's work and mission.
context_section_description: In 2005, Dr Sanjay Pandya began drafting a book to educate patients about the prevention and care of kidney diseases and common issues related to kidneys. His book, written in Gujarati is titled “Tamari Kidney Bachavo”, which translates to “Save Your Kidneys”. Attributing to its success in the state, the book was later translated into Hindi (2008) by Dr Pandya to make it accessible to a wider audience across India. 
  In 2010, Dr Pandya founded the Kidney Education Foundation to overcome the two biggest hurdles of inaccessibility and language barriers, to reach the global population. Initially, the Hindi and Gujarati editions were released on the internet to achieve this goal with the launch of the KEF website. In 2012, Dr Pandya wrote and released a free online English edition. Following these early books, several nephrologists from across the world joined this cause with time. 
  Various teams of international nephrologists began to translate the content in their native languages, making it available to their local vernacular (non-English speaking) audience. In a span of 8 years, a dedicated team of more than 100 nephrologists at the Kidney Education Foundation has developed books and websites in 37 languages, including major international languages such as English, Italian, Chinese, Spanish, French, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese and Japanese.
caption: Book release of 'Save Your Kidneys' in Chinese.
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