My name is Tamara Walker-McKoy, and I am a pre-kidney transplant patient. I am a mother of two teenage young men, and I reside in Athens. 

Currently, I am in need of a kidney transplant. Due to the extensive costs of the procedure, medications needed for life and copays, fundraising will be greatly needed. The fundraising will help support my efforts to receive a new kidney, so that I may have a normal and regular life.

In doing so, I will be faced with enormous annual costs to pay for medications needed after transplant. For this reason, there will be a gospel-music benefit at 4 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 1 at Living Waters Christian Fellowship. I am asking for people to sponsor my fundraising events or make a monetary donation towards my fundraising account with the Georgia Transplant Foundation, a nonprofit organization that holds and matches my fundraising account.

Take a look at my webpage at client.gatransplant.org. Click on "transplant fundraising," then "individual fundraising pages" and type my name in the search box. Or, please mail a check or money order payable to the Georgia Transplant Foundation with my name in the memo line to: 

Georgia Transplant Foundation
500 Sugar Mill Road
Building A, Suite 170
Atlanta, GA 30350.

Please help me reach my goal to assist with the transplant costs and help me to continue to live a healthy life. Please note that a living kidney donor is also needed. Please contact me for more information.