Exercise and eat correctly to save your kidney by firm health Ghana foundation

As part of the foundations activities to create more awareness to save and improve the lives of Ghanaians affected by kidney disease, Firm Health Ghana Foundation held its second monthly 5KM health walk dubbed FIRMWalk 2015. This walk comes off on the last Saturday of every month.


The second walk which was organized in partnership with Space fm (87.7) and sponsored by Washington Rentals came off on the 27th June, 2015 at the T & A Park (Tarkwa). The walk started exactly 6:00am with hundreds of participants from the Tarkwa Keepfit Club, Ghana Prisons Services (Tarkwa), Ghana Ambulance Service (Tarkwa), Fire Brigade Ghana (Tarkwa), Red Cross Society of Ghana (Tarkwa), Beloved Youth Club (Tarkwa), Fidelity Bank, Community development vocation institute of Tarkwa and many others. The event which lasted for three (3) hours was in two phases.

Phase 1 – FIRMWalk. The 5KM walk which lasted for 1 hour 30 minutes commenced at exactly 6:00am at the T&A park, the route for the walk was T&A Park – Lowcost – Hotel de Hilda – Estate Junction – University of Mines – Takoradi Station – Post Office – Banking Lane – T&A Park.
Phase 2 - Aerobics Session. An intense 45 minutes aerobics session took place right after the walk under the guidance of the foundations aerobics instructor Mr. Patrick Okyere. The health event was climaxed with some words of encouragement from Mr. Akpah Sylvester, Director of Operations, Firm Health Ghana Foundation for participants to make exercising a part of their daily activities since it will help improve their health and mental state. He also encouraged them avail themselves for the 3rd edition which comes off on the 25th of July, 2015.



Article by:
Emmanuel Amarh Ashitey.
Public Relations
Firm Health Ghana Foundation
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