Share Clean Water with World Vision

I received promotional items as a thank you from World Vision for sharing this information with you.  As always any opinions stated in my post are entirely my own.  I believe in World Vision’s cause and the work they are doing to bring help and hope to families around the world.

Six kilometers (approximately 3.7 miles) is the average distance that people in the developing world – often women and young girls – walk for water each day. This walk can be dangerous, and the water is often contaminated with life-threatening diseases.

On Saturday, May 6, 2017, 40,000 people from around the globe will join together to walk or run 6 kilometers to raise awareness of the global water crisis and support World Vision’s water initiatives through theWorld Vision Global 6K for Water. Each participant’s $50 registration fee supports World Vision’s water programs and each participant will receive a Global 6K for Water t-shirt, a race bib with a photo of a child he or she can sponsor, and a race medal in the mail.

This spring, we’d like to talk about the global water crisis and ways you as my readers can take part in making a difference leading up to the Global 6K for Water (May 6, 2016). Following are some tips from World Vision for making an impact right from your home:

•  Become a Global 6K Host Site: Work together with your church, school, community center or run club to register as a host site (it’s free!) and spread the word about how fun and easy it is to support clean water programs around the world! Whether your goal is 10 or 100 people, World Vision will equip you with all the marketing materials, race day signage and staff support for a successful race day. If you can’t become a host site, considering running or walking with other Global 6K for Water participants at a host site near you.

•  Start a Global 6K Virtual Team: Invite friends and family all around the country to join your “team” even though you will each be walking or running from your own neighborhoods on race day. Even those who wish to participate individually, whether on a treadmill or around the neighborhood, can take part in a global effort to support clean water!

•  Turn Coffee into Clean Water: Even small amounts of money can make a big difference for families around the world. Once a week, put the money that might normally be used to purchase your morning latte toward a “clean water fund.” Over the course of a year, you could set aside as much as $250 to support World Vision’s water programs.

•  Change a Life Through Child Sponsorship: Poverty is complex and rarely solved by one intervention. Sponsoring a child is a long-term way to get involved with World Vision and help a child – and his or her entire community – benefit from things like clean water through new or renovated wells, school fees and supplies, better education due to restored schools and teacher training, improved nutrition due to agricultural training, and healthcare clinics and immunizations.

• Become a Part of Team World Vision: The Global 6K for Water is just one event organized by Team World Vision, a group of passionate people who run, walk and race to help children get clean water. Join Team World Vision for support in reaching your own fitness goals while helping others around the world.

Why support clean water through World Vision?

World Vision believes the global water and sanitation crisis can be solved within our lifetime. World Vision provides a new person with clean water every 30 seconds as part of a full solution to end poverty. In 2015, World Vision provided access to clean water to 2.3 million people, and the organization’s goal is to provide clean water and sanitation to one new person every 10 seconds by 2020.

I really hope you participate in this important cause – or at the very least take time on May the 6th to walk 3.7 miles to better realize how blessed we are each day to just be able to walk to our fridge, taps or hop in our vehicles to grab bottled water every day.

Please consider visiting the World Vision Facebook page at /WorldVision and Twitter at @WorldVisionUSA, to learn more about the different projects World Vision is involved with around the globe.

To learn more about the Global 6K for Water, visit: http://www.teamworldvision.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=848&referrer=media. To learn more about World Vision’s water programs, visit: https://www.worldvision.org/our-work/clean-water?campaign=108929307.

One of my readers will receive a World Vision Global 6K for Water t-shirt and water bottle.