Family and friends of Audra Walker are raising money for the nonprofit Help Hope Live to fund uninsured medical expenses associated with a Transplant. Audra has chosen to fundraise with Help Hope Live in part because donations are tax deductible for contributors and will only be used to cover medical and related expenses.
Audra is a 58-year-old proud mother of three(3) adult children and the devoted grandmother to four (4) rambunctious grandchildren. She is the loving wife of Ernest Walker, to whom she has been married for 39 years. In late November 2024, Audra was notified she would need to start dialysis and be listed for a kidney transplant in order to preserve her life.
For the past ten (10) years, Audra has been battling back from the residual damage left behind from two strokes she suffered on the same day in February 2015. Because of her deep faith, Audra never gave up hope and believes she still has a purpose to leave people in a better place than where she many find them through her ministry of Jesus Christ. She is committed to spreading the good news and continue being a beacon of hope to those who are struggling to remain hopeful. Audra is on track to become an ordained Minister in late June 2025.
Since Audra’s diagnosis of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and need for a kidney transplant, she is experiencing a significant increase in physical exhaustion, weakness, loss of appetite and decreased energy to continue doing many of the things she has loved doing; especially, engaging fully in her church and professional women’s organization to which she has been an active participant for 20+ years. Audra spends the greater portion of her day resting, sleeping or being poked and prodded in her many doctor offices. Audra’s doctors have stated her greatest option for survival is finding someone to become a living donor.
Audra is fundraising to cover the costs of transplant-related services that may not be covered by insurance such as travel expenses, living donor expenses, donor search efforts, medication, hospital costs, and many other things.
Audra hopes a living donor will be found soon so she may return to her once very active life. Audra looks forward to return to her servant leader activities such as volunteering to serve meals in the homeless shelter, providing companionship to seniors living in senior housing, participating in her various church activities.
Please donate to Help Hope Live in Audra’s honor today, and ask your friends and family to give too! We would love to plan some fundraisers in Audra’s honor, too, so if you are able to help with that, please contact a member of her Kidney Transplant Champion team, Lavonnie Bickerstaff @ [email protected] or Sheila Collins @ [email protected]. Thank you in advance for your generous support!
