“Live with an open heart, because if you close yourself off to protect yourself from the hurt, you also stop joy from getting in.’ ~ Jenna Lowe
Support Jenna's Legacy
We appreciate any and all efforts made to furthering Jenna’s Legacy and supporting our cause in any way that suits you best.
Register to become an Organ Donor
Less than 0.3% of South Africans are registered organ donors, despite SA being the ‘home’ of the heart
transplant. This shocking statistic (we need hundreds of thousands more donors) means at least 4,300 people
await a life-saving organ transplant on any given day.
It is quick, easy and costs nothing to register as a donor. Your organs could save up to seven lives when
you die.
Electronic Funds Transfer
For electronic fund transfers, the banking details are:
The Jenna Lowe Trust
Bank: First National Bank
Vineyard Road Branch, Claremont, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa 7708
SA National clearing code: 250655
Business account number: 6238 7502 761
Swift code: FIRNZAJJ
Register to become an Organ Donor
Less than 0.3% of South Africans are registered organ donors, despite SA being the ‘home’ of the heart
transplant. This shocking statistic (we need hundreds of thousands more donors) means at least 4,300 people
await a life-saving organ transplant on any given day.
It is quick, easy and costs nothing to register as a donor. Your organs could save up to seven lives when
you die.
Electronic Funds Transfer
For electronic fund transfers, the banking details are:
The Jenna Lowe Trust
Bank: First National Bank
Vineyard Road Branch, Claremont, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa 7708
SA National clearing code: 250655
Business account number: 6238 7502 761
Swift code: FIRNZAJJ
Why donate funds?
Jenna was determined to change the landscape of Pulmonary Hypertension in South Africa, to help other PH sufferers get an earlier diagnosis to increase their life expectancy. PH is a rare, degenerative lung disease for which there is no cure. Early diagnosis and access to treatment is critical to improve a patients quality of life – and yet these treatments are expensive and access is difficult. To this end we support The Jenna Lowe PH Clinic at Grooteschuur Hospital as well as initiate many other important projects to help empower patients and honour Jenna’s legacy. She also wanted to improve organ donation in SA so that more patients can receive the life-saving transplants they desperately need. Without your financial assistance we simply cannot exist, let alone continue to make a difference.
Please Note: No Jenna Lowe Trust Director or board member is paid for their time on The Jenna Lowe Trust.
Where will your money go?
Any and all funds donated to the Jenna Lowe Trust are used to:
- Help fund the Groote Schuur Pulmonary Hypertension State Clinic and the state lung transplant facility so that patients have a chance at life
- Help fund expensive medical equipment such as Oxygen Machines and Mobility Devices for PH patients who cannot afford them
- Help us continue raising awareness so that PH patients in South Africa receive an earlier diagnosis, get better care and have improved access to treatments
- Help us continue raising awareness about the shortage of organ donors in South Africa, in order to increase registrations, inspire, educate and address any misconceptions.
- Help fund materials, conferences, webinars and any other resources to educate and empower PH patients
Ongoing projects:
- Support of The Jenna Lowe PH Clinic at Grooteschuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa (Logo for Grooteschuur attached)
- Assisting local patients with expensive medical equipment (such as Mobility Devices and Oxygen Machines) when possible
- Holding support groups and informative webinars for local patients
- Funding a monthly clinic nurse, Nurse Hilary Barlow, to oversee patients’ needs and be the ‘bridge’ between the clinic and The Jenna Lowe Trust
- Producing and distributing, both digitally physically, important information on PH for patients
- Patient education and empowerment projects – ongoing
- To continue building The Jenna Lowe Database Registry for PH Patients in SA (3 x Logo’s for PH Registry attached)
Upcoming projects:
- A Medical Narrative Documentary for global distribution called “Get Me to 21 – The Jenna Lowe Story”, to further spread awareness of the disease thereby ensuring earlier diagnosis and patient empowerment.
- Following the 6th World Symposium for Pulmonary Hypertension held in Nice, France in 2017; Gabi Lowe, mother of the late Jenna Lowe and Director of the Trust, has been seconded onto a Patient Empowerment Task Force with the PVRI. She currently working with highly acclaimed International Doctors (specialists in PH) to strategise and develop ways to empower patients world-wide amongst other important patient driven projects.
- The Jenna Lowe Trust held the first ever Patients Perspective PH Symposium in SA in 2023 at Faircape. If funds are available we hope to repeat these every 2-3 years – it was highly informative and empowering for patients with access to experience and expertise from all over SA and the States.
Not for Profit
The Jenna Lowe Trust is a 100% not-for-profit organisation. No trustee is paid for their time in executing their duties as a trustee. Such time is all given voluntarily, free of charge.
Other ways to Help - Make a difference right now
#GETMETO21 Book
Brilliantly written, riveting in all its terrible truth and pain, in
this brutally honest memoir Gabi Lowe shares her family’s desperate
fight to save Jenna’s life.
Get Me to 21 will inspire us to believe that the ability to face
even the darkest, and most unimaginable, lives deep within us all.
Kristi’s Music
‘I Need More Time’, which launched on
KFM in June 2012 went to number 3 on the iTunes ZA Pop Chart in just
one day!
Kristi is currently working on a number of new tracks.
‘Take Me Away’ was the first single
Kristi released since her sister’s passing, and it is dedicated to
Jenna and her incredible legacy. Her newest single
‘Not Here To Please You’ was written
as a reflection of Kristi’s experience as a women in a world
dominated by men.
Become an Organ donor
Less than 0.3% of South Africans are registered organ donors,
despite SA being the ‘home’ of the heart transplant. This shocking
statistic means at least 4,300 people await a life-saving organ
transplant on any given day.
It is quick, easy and costs nothing to register as a donor. Your
organs could save up to seven lives when you die.
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