Enter our 6K Run For Water at Victoria Park on 18th April and Win the Chance to Visit a Pump Aid Project in Malawi!
The Dow Live Earth Run for Water global event on 18th April 2010 will be the single biggest fundraising effort to tackle the global water crisis in history. Currently, as staggering 900 million people across the world don’t have access to clean water, killing around 4000 children every day. At any one time, over half of the hospital beds in Africa are taken up by people suffering from diarrhoea, something so easy to avoid.
More than 100 countries across the globe will participate in raising money for water causes by staging 6 kilometre running events including Us, UK, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and Singapore. Victoria Park in London will host the UK running event and music concert with all the funds raised going straight to Pump Aid projects. In many places across the world, including London, this activity will culminate in a concert held which will feature international music artists and celebrities, free tickets will go to those participating in the run!
With Pump Aid, you get more bang for your buck – by raising just £500 at the event we can install a pump in Zimbabwe, Malawi or Liberia that will bring water to life to 250 people. But the pump will not just improve health, it will stop women and girls walking 5 hours per day, often in dangerous situations, it will give young girls the time to go to school, it will support the local economy as communities will have the water they need to grow crops. It will change people’s lives.
By entering the race and by raising money for Pump Aid, you could win a once in a lifetime trip to Malawi to see Pump Aid giving communities clean water for life – you’ll be shown where your money is spent and even how to build a water pump. All you have to do is become our biggest fundraiser!
More children die of contaminated water than Malaria and HIV/Aids combined, let’s bring together a global movement ready to put an end to this.
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