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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page. This sponsored walk will be held on 1st July 2012 at Tegg's Nose Country Park, setting off at 12 noon.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The walk for water takes place every year (one way or another) last year we raised just short of £500 enough to buy a share in a borehole plus provide safe water for almost 118 people. This gift provided a vital contribution towards the drilling and maintaining of a borehole delivering clean safe water for drinking or irrigation.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">This year we would like to do the same again by raising a minimum of £500 but would dearly love to be able to provide a Water Tank or best part of (£3,214). In emergencies Oxfam rush Water Tanks to the epicentre to provide clean, safe water, in temporary camps, huge versions, holding tens of thousands of literes, can supply water to hundreds of families. And installing a tank in a village school can help make attendance rocket.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Please either sponsor our walkers or if you are interested in taking part please contact us on 01625 429939 - in the interest of Health & Safety numbers are limited. </span><span style="color: #000000;">Thank you in advance for your support</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">PLEASE </span><span style="color: #000000;">SPONSOR, WHATEVER YOU CAN, </span> TODAY -<span style="color: #000000;"> EVERY LITTLE HELPS - JUST £1 WILL HELP BETTER STILL GIFT AID THE AMOUNT AND MAKE IT GO FURTHER!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Every £90 raised will provide water for 100 people</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Few gifts are more important than this. Your gift helps set up or maintain a safe water supply, whatever the circumstances, in whatever form it’s needed… pumps, tanks, purification systems or pipes. Set up a school or village for the first time, or restore the supply after an emergency.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Why Walk for Water?</span> </strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Water and sanitation</strong></span></span> </span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size: small;">* Worldwide, more than one billion people do not have clean, safe water</span> </em>
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<em><span style="font-size: small;">* Each year, two million people, most of them children under five, die from diarrhoea</span></em>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>How we respond</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">In any emergency, lives are put at risk by inadequate water supplies and poor sanitation. Oxfam’s water engineers are known internationally for the speed and efficiency with which they can help provide large-scale water supplies, and essential sanitation facilities, even in the most difficult circumstances.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">In chronic emergencies that unfold over a longer period of time, there is more scope to develop solutions that are more cost-effective and appropriate to local conditions</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Oxfam public health teams also work alongside our water engineers to ensure water and sanitation facilities are used properly, and so prevent the spread of disease. </span></p>
<p><em><strong>Maintaining standards</strong> </em><span style="font-size: small;">We aim to provide each person that we support in an emergency situation with at least 15 litres of clean water per day for drinking, cooking, and washing. This is one of a number of internationally recognised minimum standards set by the Sphere Humanitarian Charter that we helped to create. It sets out what people, affected by disasters, have a right to expect from organisations providing humanitarian assistance. </span></p>
<p><strong>So please dig deep and donate now and don't forget you can make your donation go that little bit further by giftaiding it...</strong></p>