EDGAR RICHES

Branksome Walk for Water

Fundraising for The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
£2,155
raised of £2,000 target
Donations cannot currently be made to this page
Event: Walk for Water 2021, from 17 February 2021 to 11 April 2021
Participants: Edgar Riches, Peter Thomas, Alannah Bolt and Frances Tse
Join us on Saturday 20th February for our virtual Big Walk for Water. You'll be joining in spirit with Catholics across England and Wales who are all walking 5 miles in their area. Take the challenge on your own, with your family, or 'virtual parish'

Story

We are taking part in the Big Walk for Water with CAFOD and pledge to walk for 40 days in solidarity with our poorest brothers and sister who have to walk for water everyday to survive.. Please sponsor us if you can, or join for our virtual walk, the more the merrier! Go to www.cafod.org.uk/walk for more info. 

Your support for our Big Walk for Water will mean that we can help people around the world living in extreme poverty like Abdella.

Abdella has to walk 10 HOURS EVERYDAY to get water for his family.  He is 23 and he has big dreams. He dreams of starting a small business, starting his own family and of having his own home.  He dreams of not having to spend all his days walking for water. Abdella lives in Afar in Ethiopia said to be the hottest place on earth. He spends most of a day getting water for his family to drink. He knows that if there was water near his home, his family wouldn't have to worry about getting enough to stay alive and he could start on the dreams he has for the rest of his life.

Please support our Walk for Water to help transform the lives of the poorest of our brothers and sisters. You gift could buy:

- £10 can buy sturdy water containers so families can store water safely.

- £33 water for a family.

- £40 can bring safe drinking water to a hard-to-reach school.

- £66 a bike for a water engineer to travel to remote communities' water pumps.

- £198 could buy bikes for a team of three water engineers to service water pumps in remote communities.

- £750 can give a community water supply.

Share this story

Help EDGAR RICHES

Sharing this page with your friends could help raise up to 3x more in donations

You can also help by sharing this link on

About the campaign

Join us on Saturday 20th February for our virtual Big Walk for Water. You'll be joining in spirit with Catholics across England and Wales who are all walking 5 miles in their area. Take the challenge on your own, with your family, or 'virtual parish'

About the charity

CAFOD works with local partners and communities across the world - responding to emergencies, promoting long-term development and raising public awareness of the causes of poverty. We work with people of all faiths and none for a safe, sustainable and peaceful world.

Donation summary

Total raised
£2,155.00
+ £468.75 Gift Aid
Online donations
£2,155.00
Offline donations
£0.00

* Charities pay a small fee for our service. Find out how much it is and what we do for it.