Walk for Water
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Why Walk for Water?
771 million people around the world – that's 1 in 10 of us – still don't have access to clean water close to home.
Without clean water, whole communities are held back: children miss out on education, people struggle to earn a decent living, and families are often ill.
For women and girls, the burden is even greater. Millions have to make difficult journeys of up to 12km every single day, just to fetch the water they and their families need to survive.
When you Walk for Water, you’re helping to give women and girls – like Lal Kumari, Zeitu and Seido – the power to change their own lives, forever.
Walk 4km a day for women like Lal Kumari
Lal Kumari, 60, lives in the mountainous region of Dolakha, eastern Nepal. For half the year, the system that supplies her community with water runs dry leaving her with no choice but to make the tiring, treacherous journey to a river an hour’s walk away.
Walk 8km a day for mothers like Zeitu
Zeitu, 37, has been walking for water for 30 years. Early each morning, she heads to a spring 4km away from home in central Ethiopia, hoping to get there before herds of cattle do. The dirty water makes her family sick, but she simply has no other option.
Walk 12km a day for girls like Seido
Seido, 16, fetches water for her family in rural Ethiopia, which takes a staggering 10 hours in total, consuming almost her entire day. She dreams of going to school – but, for as long as her time is taken walking for water, her education will be on hold.
How Walk for Water works
Pledge how far you’ll walk each day – 4, 8 or 12km – then track your progress as you complete the challenge, raising funds to so we can make clean water normal for everyone, everywhere.
When you sign up to Walk for Water, you'll set up your own bespoke fundraising page, where you can keep track of how far you’ve walked and how much you’ve raised. Share your page with friends and family so they can follow your progress and support you by making a donation.
Then, from 1 to 31 March, walk every day. Whether you prefer a few lunchtime laps of the park, an evening stroll, or a long weekend hike – it’s up to you how you choose to reach your target distance!
Log your activity automatically using the fitness app Strava, or manually add your walks to your fundraising page – you’ll be able to see your individual progress, and every kilometre you complete will count towards our overall total.
What our past walkers say
I took the solitude and quietness as an opportunity to think of those who actually walk to collect water and often in much less pleasant conditions and this was an incentive to be consistent day by day."