One year after a third grader lost her grandmother to kidney disease and the school held a car wash to raise money in a fight against the cause, Yates Magnet School brought a lesson on kidney health to the classroom.

On Tuesday, December 1st, as part of the "Kidneys in the Classroom" program, a representative from the New York State Kidney Foundation,  a medical technician, kidney patients from Albany Medical Center and Kismet the clown, who is a dialysis patient at the hospital, spent some time talking with students and staff about how to keep their kidneys healthy and ways to prevent kidney disease.

The presentation was a follow-up to the car wash that Yates school held last year in which students and staff raised over $200 for the National Kidney Foundation.

"Kidneys in the Classroom" is an elementary education program that teaches teaching children about the kidney and how to keep their bodies healthy, as well as organ donation.

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