Imagine life without water flowing freely from a tap. Imagine waking up at dawn and spending up to six hours fetching water for your family’s needs. One in eight people worldwide do not have to imagine this life – it is their reality.
In rural Africa women often walk for up to ten miles to fetch water. The tragedy is that, having spent so much effort reaching a water source, the water itself is often dirty, polluted and unsafe to drink.
The daily burden of collecting water prevents women from working and children from going to school. Worse still, diseases like diarrhoea and dysentery caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation result in the deaths of 4,000 children every day.
WaterAid believes that access to safe water and sanitation underpins health, education and livelihoods, and forms the first, essential step in overcoming poverty.
Sponsor me today, your money will make a big difference to those in need:
£12 could pay for 2 taps for a village water point
£100 could buy a tapstand for a gravity-flow scheme
Help me to help WaterAid transform lives through sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene projects.
Sponsor me today at: www.justgiving.com/trekforwater2013
Huge thanks to all who have already supported me and to those who promised, well there's no time like the present! :-)
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Info taken from WaterAid's Fundraising toolkit
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