{"id":3930,"date":"2015-03-02T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2020-02-08T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T20:19:15","slug":"iya-bekondo-granatella-interview-with-1-rep-camer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/2015\/03\/02\/iya-bekondo-granatella-interview-with-1-rep-camer\/","title":{"rendered":"Iya Bekondo-Granatella Interview with 1 Rep Camer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Please tell us a bit about yourself<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMy name is Iya Bekondo-Granatella, kidney transplant recipient, and Founder of the Iya Kidney Foundation. I am a Cameroonian, currently residing in the United States.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Why the Iya Foundation? How did it all start?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe passion of The Iya Foundation is born of personal experiences. I was diagnosed with Kidney Disease at age 7, and lost both of my kidneys ten years later to kidney failure. After 5 years of dialysis therapy, God shined His grace upon me, and made it possible for me to get a renal transplant through my amazing selfless mom who donated one of her kidneys to me. Our transplant will be 10 years on September 6<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;2015<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong><em>How do you accomplish your vision? The activities of the foundation<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nOur awareness campaigns include: giving a kidney talk at&nbsp;your place of worship; our annual walk and barbeque fundraiser that&nbsp; further echoes kidney and organ donation awareness, sending out&nbsp;educative and informative materials through our e-newsletter, as well as use social media to advocate through our daily educative updates and campaigns, such as our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/projects\/gallery\/wear-your-green-to-fight-kidney-disease-campaign\/\">Green Campaign<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 where we beckon the public to wear their green outfits and post it on social media with a caption that highlights kidney and organ donation awareness.<br \/>\n[button icon=&#8221;&#8221; size=&#8221;medium&#8221; color=&#8221;default&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.irepcamer.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/wcw-founder-of-iya-kidney-foundation.html?m=1&#8243;] Read the Full Article [\/button]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell us a bit about yourself My name is Iya Bekondo-Granatella, kidney transplant recipient, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0},"categories":[200,159],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IRepCamer5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiyafoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}