Young heroes show: Experience organ donation up close in Würzburg!

At the University Hospital Würzburg (UK), the exhibition "My Story" will be presented until January 7, 2025. This event, which has been running since December 2, 2024, illuminates personal stories of young organ transplants and their experiences with donor organs. Up to 10 % of the transplants in Germany take place in children under the age of 15, often due to innate organ errors.

The exhibition comprises around 20 show walls in the magistrale of the Center for Operative Medicine of the FM. Accompanying this, portraits of photographer Micha Neugebauer from Hanover can be seen, who visually support the text contributions. The exhibition was organized by Kio Youth, the junior team of the Kinderhilfe Association Organ Transplantation - Athletes for Organ Donation e. V. (Kio), who, with his work, provides financial and psychosocial support for families with an organ -ill child.

award for Kio Youth

In addition, Kio Youth recently received the organ donation price 2023, as the presseportal.de . The prize was presented to the Federal Ministry of Health on November 29, 2023 and was endowed with 5,000 euros. The award was awarded by the parliamentary State Secretary Sabine Dittmar (MdB). Kio Youth, which consists of around 20 organ transplanted young people, pursues the goal of clarifying organ donation and transplantation in schools, universities and social media.

The foundation on life has been awarded the organ donation price since 2021 and emerged from the Foundation for the Life of the German Foundation Organ Transplantation (DSO). The managing director of the foundation, Dr. Jorit Ness, emphasized the importance of the young generation for changes in the area of ​​organ donation. Kio Youth also formulated three central demands on politics in a “Berlin explanation”: the introduction of the resolution, the implementation of the organ donor register and the mandatory information about organ donation in schools.

The Kio association supports around 100 families with organ transplanted children every year and promotes the participation of young organ donors from the age of 18.