By Jonathon Brodie

Tom Awad, 70, was running out of time but since his liver transplant nine years ago he’s been walking to create awareness for organ donation.

Awad, for the fifth consecutive year, is making the four-day trek from London’s University Hospital to Windsor.

Funds raised for the event go to support the London Health Sciences Centre and Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital Windsor.

Awad said he wants to bring attention to people signing-up to donate their organs because if people didn’t, he wouldn’t be here today.

“I was really lucky to survive,” Awad said. “This is my was of giving back to London and Windsor, and really to anywhere a donor family lives.”