When you walk for clean water with World Vision’s Global 6K for Water, you help lay a foundation for fighting injustice all around the world. Here are three ways that access to clean water impacts other social issues.
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Clean Water
Voices
The worst running shoes you’d never want to wear
Athletes research the best running shoes to enhance their performance. But in many places, children walk for water, to school, and play in bare feet or terrible shoes.
Voices
Faith in action: We run so we can believe
Do you only show up for others when you feel like it? God asks us to say yes and put our faith in action even when it isn’t easy to believe. Explore what happens when you take a step forward in faith … and let your heart catch up.
From the Field
A promise to Rwanda for World Water Day
To bring clean water in every World Vision program area by 2030, World Vision commits to universal access to water by 2022 for families in Rwanda.
Voices
The power of running together
Every day, more than 800 children die from preventable diseases caused by unsafe drinking water. You can change that! Every step you take walking or running together with your friends in our Global 6K for Water is a step a child doesn’t have to.
Special Features
The long path to clean water
FEB. 15, 2018, UGANDA — In eastern Uganda, a community is still reeling from the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency more than a decade ago. Children like 5-year-old Grace must walk a long way for dirty water while parents are still walking an emotional path of healing. Through it all, access to clean water would help everyone heal and have a fuller life.
From the Field
A clean water project orchestrated by God
Donors, two communities, and World Vision worked together like a beautiful symphony to bring clean water to thousands of Hondurans.
Change Makers
Watermill Express: ‘Seeing hope and a better future’ for children
In the 1980s, Lani Dolifka learned the water flowing through the faucet in her Colorado home had been declared unsafe. It inspired Lani and her husband, Don, to develop an automated small-scale purification plant that converted their tap water into pure drinking water. Today, their company, Watermill Express, is the largest drive-up pure drinking water company in the U.S.
Prayers
Praying for clean water preparations
As families prepare to receive clean water, they also prepare their homes with six key elements that will ensure proper sanitation and hygiene.
Voices
Podcast with Belynda Gentry of First Baptist Church of Glenarden
This edition of the World Vision podcast features a conversation with Reverend Belinda Gentry from First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Maryland.