The Alabama Kidney Foundation (AKF) has a special event planned for Saturday to help create awareness for kidney disease. The group has a walk planned in Montgomery to raise money to support its assistance programs for kidney patients.

The AKF bills the walk as a “fun event” which will attract “thousands of individual and team walkers joining to make a difference in the lives of Alabama’s kidney patients.”

Registration begins at 8:30am at the Baptist DeBoer Building at 301 Brown Springs Road in Montgomery. The walk begins at 9:30am from the same location.
The AKF has a 43-year history of helping Alabama’s kidney patient population. Its stated mission is “to serve kidney patients by providing financial assistance, education and support services.” KTF also “provides public education to promote organ donation awareness and prevention of kidney disease.”

According to the foundation, Alabama ranks 5th in the nation for the occurrence of kidney disease, with an inordinate number of cases among African-Americans. Over 400,000 total people in the state suffer from kidney disease and 10,000 people are on life-sustaining dialysis. Approximately 300 kidney transplants are performed annually.

The annual Kidney Walk benefits those patients in need of financial assistance, education and support services.

For more information about the walk, visit MontgomeryKidneyWalk.org.

To learn more about kidney disease, visit the AKF website at alkidney.org/kidney-facts/.

Tim Howe is an owner and editor of Yellowhammer News