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When you walk for clean water, these kids win

These kids walk about 6 kilometers every day to fetch water. Learn what their lives are like now, and how you can change their lives when you walk for clean water.

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Kenya

Here are the water facts you should know as the world takes on the challenge to ensure access to clean water and sanitation for everyone worldwide by 2030.

From the Field

Water facts: Good news and a global challenge

Here’s a simple fact: Water is life. Every human being needs water to survive. But the world is in a challenging place when it comes to water. Water is only getting more difficult to come by in areas affected by drought or conflict and as populations grow.

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A woman in Sinazongwe Zambia, carries a baby on her back and container of water from a World Vision borehole on her head. Carrying water long distances can have lasting effects on one’s health, some research shows. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)

From the Field

Carrying water can be a pain in the neck

On average, that woman walks about 6K, or 3.7 miles, to get water for her family. Depending on the size of that jerry can, she’s carrying up to 44 pounds when it’s full. And carrying water that way could have long-term negative health effects.

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Though Cheru and Kamama live 16 miles apart, for one, her walk for water is a 3-hour struggle; for the other, it’s a 7-minute stroll. Walk with them.

From the Field

Water within reach: Compare two 5-year-olds’ walk for water

Cheru and Kamama live in rural Kenya, and like millions of African children, they help their mothers carry water every day. Though the 5-year-olds live just 16 miles apart, for one, fetching water is a three-hour struggle; for the other, it’s a seven-minute stroll. Walk with them.

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Kenya

Team World Vision members participate in the 2016 Global 6K for water. ©2016 Gameface Media/used with permission

Change Makers

Global 6K for Water prep: What you need to know

Here’s how to prepare well for the Global 6K for Water on May 6, 2017, and have a blast as you help bring clean water to children around the world.

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With baby Haron tied to her back Monica makes milk tea for her children's breakfast.

From the Field

What’s in the water will make you sick

Monica is like millions of women in Africa who carry home dirty water from a waterhole. What’s in the water makes her children sick.

Clean Water
Kenya

Monica uses a twig to clean Cheru’s teeth in a break from their long walk for water.

From the Field

Walk for water: Moms bear the burden when water is scarce

Two Kenyan mothers desire education, independence, and health for their daughters, but only one has assurance her daughter’s life can be better than her own.

Clean Water
Kenya

When you partner with World Vision, you are walking with the poor. Mothers, fathers, and children feel your love and support across the miles. And with that comes a sense of God’s love. Knowing they’re not alone in their struggles lightens their load.

Voices

Walking with the poor: Solving the global water crisis

Rich Stearns reflects on how when you partner with World Vision, you are walking with the poor. Mothers, fathers, and children feel your love and support across the miles. And with that comes a sense of God’s love. Knowing they’re not alone in their struggles lightens their load.

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Malinda doesn’t love running, but “getting clean water to people who need it is life and death,” she says. That's why she runs the Global 6K for Water.

Change Makers

Following God’s call to run 6K for clean water

Malinda doesn’t love running, but “getting clean water to people who need it is life and death,” she says. That’s why she runs the Global 6K for Water.