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.

1.I am proud of this because…

I am proud of this because I got to help people that spend long hours walking with water on a day-to-day basis, by raising $25 to get a person water for life. I got a taste of what the children in Sierra Leone, and in other countries on our globe, have to go through every day, in order to get water that is often full of waterborne diseases and other bacteria, sometimes having to miss out on getting an education in order to get water. I am proud that I now have a better understanding of their hardships, and that I am helping them!

2. Something new that I learned and understand better…

Something new that I learned and understand better is that it is one thing to learn about the topic of human suffering in a quiet classroom in relative comfort, and quite another to try and walk in the shoes of the people you are studying about. Participating in the We Walk for Water event made me realize through first-hand experience just how much physical strain and toil is put on the girls who have to fetch water everyday. However, even though walking for water left my back and shoulders sore, I know that the pain I went through is merely a watered down version of what children in Sierra Leone and elsewhere in the world have to go through everyday, as I did not even walk for half-an-hour, and they must walk for many, many hours, and under much harsher, tougher, circumstances.

3. My biggest challenge was…

My biggest challenge was not spilling the water everywhere, which I did end up doing, on account of the water sloshing out of the bucket when I moved, and when I dropped it once when someone made me laugh. It became uncomfortable when some of the water that spilled out of the bucket I held soaked through my shirt.

4. I still have questions and uncertainties about…

My questions are:

• How do those who have to fetch water for hours each day have the power to go on everyday?
• Why don’t those who have the funds to help those with not enough water not do so?