Hi, I'm Julia and I am running the London Marathon in April 2020 for WaterAid. 

This charity is important to me as I believe that everyone, everywhere should have access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. 

According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 790 million people (11% of the world's population) lack access to improved drinking water and at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces. 

Clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene should be a normal part of everyone's daily life. Your contribution to WaterAid can help transform lives by bringing clean drinking water and life-saving sanitation to those communities who need it.

This will also be my first time running a marathon and I am thrilled that it will be the London Marathon. I know this will take months of grueling training and every little bit of your contribution will keep me going.

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - St. Francis of Assisi