About the challenge

This March, take on the 155km walking challenge - averaging 5km a day – and stand with women and girls globally who are held back by having to walk 5km or more for water every day.

696 million people in the world – almost one in ten – don’t have clean water close to home. For women and girls, the burden is even greater, with many walking for hours every single day to fetch water - denying them the opportunity to go to school, earn a living, and take control of their futures.

Join the challenge and raise vital funds to help ensure that no woman or girl is held back by a lack of clean water.

Thank you for your support.

About WaterAid

WaterAid is an international non-profit with one goal: to change the world through water. Along with decent toilets and good hygiene, a reliable supply of clean water is essential for health, dignity and a life full of opportunity. We work alongside communities in 22 countries, setting up entire systems that deliver clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene for millions of people.

We are the largest global, not-for-profit focused solely on sustainable, clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene.

Image: Nathalie, Rihanata, Sonia, and Wendkouni, at their primary school, Burkina Faso. Credit: Basile Ouedraogo/Wateraid

Four children standing in a vegetable garden, holding a stream of water together with green watering cans nearby.