Walk 4km a day for women like Lal Kumari, 60, who has to face a treacherous, tiring walk to get water for her household. 

Walk 8km a day for mothers like Zeitu, 37, who walks this far each day to get water she knows will make her children sick.

Walk 12km a day for girls like Seido, 16, who she has no time for school because she must collect water each day.

1 in 10 of us around the world don’t have access to clean water close to home. Millions of women must make difficult journeys of up to 12km every single day to fetch the water they and their families need to survive. When you Walk for Water this March, you’ll help to give these women, mothers and girls the power to change their own lives, forever. 

You can do something to help this March. Join us and walk where you can, when you can. Raise vital funds to help make access to clean water normal for everyone, everywhere.

"I feel exhausted when I reach home. The path is not easy; it is steep and uneven. Many times, I have fallen on the way. But what to do? I have no other option. Without water we cannot live."

Walk for women like Lal Kumari, 60, who lives in the mountainous region of Dolakha, eastern Nepal. For half the year, the system that supplies Lal Kumari’s 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.

"Walking the same route for two hours every morning is very tiring. But there is no choice. I hope it will change soon. Until then, I will continue to do it."

Walk for mothers like Zeitu, 37, who’s been making the arduous daily journey to fetch water for three decades. Early each morning, she sets off for a spring 4km away from her home in central Ethiopia, hoping to get there before herds of cattle do. The dirty water makes her family sick; her seven-year-old daughter fell seriously ill. But without clean water close to home, Zeitu simply has no other option.

"The rest of my siblings go to school, and I want them to get their education. I don’t go to school; I’ve never been. I made the choice to stay home and support my mother with collecting water."

Walk for girls like 16-year-old Seido, who is responsible for fetching water for her family. The water source is so far away from her home in rural Ethiopia that it takes around five hours to get there – meaning Seido spends almost all day, every single day, on the road. Seido dreams of going to school like her siblings – but, for as long as her days are dominated by walking for water, her education will be on hold.