A new initiative will be launched at WCN 2011 in Vancouver: during the President's Dinner on Monday 11 April, an auction will collect funds for the victims of the disaster in Japan. The help will be coordinated by the Japanese Society of Nephrology.

Items for the auction have been donated by ISN Councillors and Executive Committee members, our Canadian hosts and many other ISN supporters.

We hope to be able to provide the maximum support to our Japanese colleagues through this initiative, and look forward to it becoming a tradition during future WCNs.