Come Join the Kansas City Kidney Walk

Childrens Mercy Team

Team Sunshine

Team Brayden

Renal Rockstars

Face painting

More than 1,000 individuals are anticipated to step up for the 2009 Kansas City Kidney Walk to help raise awareness and funds to support those who already have chronic kidney disease and the millions more at risk. We need your help to reach our goals in raising awareness and needed funds. The 2009 KC Kidney Walk is a family-fun event that will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Waterfall Park located behind the Bass Pro Shops, Independence, Mo. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the Walk starts at 10 a.m.

Your participation in and support of this 1.5-mile stroll will enable our continued efforts to detect and prevent a disease that affects more than 26 million Americans. Walkers can participate as individuals or form a team with family, friends or colleagues and are encouraged to raise as much money as possible in support of their involvement.

Funds raised from the Walk benefit the National Kidney Foundation Serving Kansas and Western Missouri’s programs and services, including the Early Intervention kidney disease screening program; Camp ChiMer, a summer camp for kids with kidney disease; KID POWER, a program focusing on healthy lifestyles for tweens ages nine to 13; and patient services for those living with kidney disease throughout Kansas and Western Missouri.

In addition to raising awareness about kidney disease, the Kidney Walk also calls attention to the 355,000 who rely on a dialysis machine to keep them alive and the more than 80,000 people on the waiting list for a lifesaving kidney transplant.

Melissa Bensouda and Stephanie Mauer are serving as event co-chairs and Mike Carter, CEO, Carter Broadcast Group, is serving as the corporate walk chairman. On board as corporate sponsors thus far are RED Development, Fresenius, Abbott, DST Systems, Bickford Senior Living, Centerpoint Medical Center, Midwest Transplant Network and Holman Hansen & Colville P.C., Attorneys at Law.

To take the first step and register for the event, or to be a sponsor of this event, visit www.kidneywalk.org or call the National Kidney Foundation Serving Kansas and Western Missouri at (913) 262-1551.