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About running the Brighton Half Marathon for WaterAid
22 October 2011
About running the Brighton Half Marathon for WaterAid: Case Study by WaterAid
In the next 20 seconds, dirty water will kill a child like Mtisunge (below)
That’s 4,000 children who die every day simply because they have to drink dirty water.
Run to support WaterAid and you can help us save lives.
Mtisunge Simeaon, aged nine, struggles to carry home a 20 litre container of dirty river water – a three-mile round trip she has to do every day. She says:
“Sometimes I go three times, sometimes four times to the river, I go more than my mother. I carry a twenty litre container. It is difficult to get back, I feel pains when I carry it. My head aches when I get back. I want to have a job when I grow up – I want to be a teacher.”
Help us to provide clean water and sanitation to children like Mtisunge by running the Brighton Half Marathon to support WaterAid.
WaterAid works throughout Africa and Asia with some of the world’s poorest people. Every hour we build a new waterpoint. And every hour we help over 100 people to get clean, safe water.
Raising £200 could pay for a hand pump in Malawi, or £500 in sponsorship could pay for a public tap stand in Ethiopia, for example. By running the Brighton Half Marathon to support WaterAid, your every step will save lives.
Find out more at www.wateraid.org/brightonhalfmarathon
