We Walk For Water
Every day girls must walk hours to collect clean water.
We’re the generation who can change this.
Twenty awesome grade 7 students in Me to We walked for water on Thursday, May 24th, 2018 during their lunchtime. Each of them committed to collecting $25 in pledges. Twenty-five dollars gives one person water for life.
- I am proud of this because…
I am proud of walking for water because I get to participate in a charity that helps children (mostly females) that can give a child water for life ($25 gives a child water for life), as well as letting children have an education instead of wasting hours and hours on collecting unclean water.
2. Something new that I learned and understand better…
Something I learned and now understand much better now, is how tiring it is to carry jugs and buckets of water, DAILY for eight hours. As well as how much time children have wasted collecting water when they could be attending to an education for a successful future.
3. My biggest challenge was…
My biggest challenge was definitely carrying two buckets of water for half an hour, but at least I was able to go around the school eight times, and I got a taste of the work many children had to go through around the world.
- I still have questions and uncertainties about…
Why mostly girls have to spend most of their childhood life fetching water, why not boys, what makes girls not as important as boys? I think both genders are quite equal, we are both nothing but human beings that all deserve a fair life.