THPF is raising both awareness and money for life-saving transplants

Organ donation rates in India are so low that even people who can afford transplant surgeries are unable to find donors

When only eight months old, Yadnya Awar developed liver failure because of a rare condition called Budd Chiari Syndrome. He needed a liver transplant to survive, his mother was ready to donate part of her liver to him — but the family couldn’t afford the Rs 2 million that the procedure would require.  

Sharing Yadnya’s predicament was seven-year-old Mayuresh, who had a hereditary disease called Citrullinaemia, which had claimed the lives of three of his siblings. For his family, too, the crucial liver transplant surgery was proving unaffordable. 

These two children are amongst millions of people every year who need organ transplants