Beautiful Scars Renal Foundation aims to see patients with kidney problems provided with help and make sure that they go through dialysis programmes without any problems.

The foundation had a candlelight and prayer ceremony for the sick at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, March 12.

March is well known as Kidney Month.

The foundation was founded by the late Ms Sinenhlahla Ndimande, known as the lady with a big heart who always put other people first.

The foundation was established on June 19, 2019.

It was named after all the scars she acquired and experienced during her years of being a renal failure patient from birth.

Since God had been faithful to her, she decided to create a foundation of hope called Beautiful Scars.

Ms Ndimande was in partnership with Mr Kenneth Nkabinde who also had kidney failure and she passed away in 2020.

The vision of the foundation is to see the organisation grow worldwide so people are served with knowledge about the disease and to ensure that the community acknowledges and knows what they can face daily without having them doubt their capabilities.

The organisation aims to provide as much as it can help by making sure that patients with kidney problems can go through dialysis programmes.

It was on that basis that two patients, Ms Xoli Khumalo (31) and Mr Emmanuel Mnisi (31) were helped by the organisation.

Mnisi said he was involved in an accident at KwaMhlanga in August 2020 and was transferred from KwaMhlanga Hospital to Witbank Hospital and operated on only to find that his kidneys were damaged.

“It was discovered that my one kidney was damaged and I started a life of kidney failure. I was put on dialysis and I was so sick that at one time I had a stroke on my left side and I was blind. For three weeks I was blind and spend a month in the hospital. After that, I was able to see, but still weak and I continue with the dialysis,” Mnisi pointed out.

He said he was then called by Nkabinde who told him to immediately go to a Pretoria hospital for a permacath to make the dialysis easier.

Since then he has been dialysing three times a week and is feeling very much better than before.

Khumalo said, “It all started as flu in 2016 and I was admitted at Witbank Hospital and it was then discovered that it was kidney failure. Since then I had heart and liver problems. I had gone through a lot of difficulties and was sent to Pretoria for an operation”.

“I would like to thank the foundation for all the work they have done for us and the contribution they have collected to help us. Members of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church played a role in supporting us and raising funds for us and praying for us as well, it meant a lot to us,” said Khumalo.

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