Frankfurt Am Main, Deutschland (ots/PRNewswire) – Isabelle Jordans receives the Helmut Werner Prize from Children’s Aid Organ Transplantation
Swimming legend Franziska van Almsick presented the Helmut Werner Prize from the Children’s Aid Organ Transplantation – Athletes for Organ Donation Association (KiO) yesterday evening in Frankfurt am Main. The 2023 award winner is Isabelle Jordans from Berlin, the honorary chairwoman of the Federal Kidney Association (BN). Her husband Dominik Müller accepted the award on behalf of the winner who was unable to attend. The renowned Helmut Werner Prize honors people who have made outstanding contributions to the needs of children and young people before or after a transplant. Franziska van Almsick has supported KiO from the start.
Since 2020, Isabelle Jordans has headed the BN, the largest self-help organization for chronic kidney disease patients, dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients in Germany. The mother of a son who had a kidney transplant was previously chairwoman of the Kidney Children Berlin-Brandenburg eV parents’ association for seven years, which particularly cares for children treated at the Charité Berlin. Jordans is also involved on the board of the Aktion Kidney patient foundation and is particularly involved in organ donation. Among other things, she is the curator and co-initiator of the “DANK-Mal” on the Virchow Clinic campus of the Charité.
KiO chairman Reinhard Gödel says: “The extensive voluntary commitment of Isabelle Jordans, a full-time architect, is admirable. It helps ensure that many people’s lives remain worth living despite a serious illness and has given children with kidney disease and their families a lot of hope and relief in particular. As a kidney transplant recipient myself, I am very pleased that our board of trustees chose Isabelle Jordans as the award winner.”
The Helmut Werner Prize has been offered by KiO since 2005 and is named after the Mercedes board member who died in 2004 as a result of liver failure but made the founding of KiO possible. The Werner family donated the prize money of 5,000 euros. The annual award is decided by the KiO Board of Trustees, which includes leading transplant doctors in Germany. The award for 2023 was presented at a KiO event with prominent guests at the new DFB campus in Frankfurt am Main. In addition to Franziska van Almsick, former Hesse Prime Minister Volker Bouffier, FAZ publisher Carsten Knop, apoBank CEO Matthias Schellenberg, the CEO of the KfH Board of Trustees for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Prof. Dr. Dieter Bach, as well as KiO board member Franziska Liebhardt, lung and kidney transplanted Paralympic champion.
The non-profit and charitable aid association KiO (www.kiohilfe.de) supports around 100 families with organ transplanted children in financial emergencies every year, provides them with important experiential educational opportunities, advises on social issues and accompanies transplanted young people on their way to independence.
Overview of all Helmut Werner Prize winners since 2005
(https://www.kiohilfe.de/ueber-uns/helmut-werner-preis)
Film portrait of Helmut Werner Prize winner Isabelle Jordans(https://youtu.be/eCPwH2328zw)
Children’s Aid Organ Transplantation – Athletes for Organ Donation eV (KiO)
Oliver Kauer-Berk
Otto-Fleck-Schneise 8
60528 Frankfurt am Main
oliver. kauer-berk@kiohilfe.de
Tel. 0172-6622093
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