TASTE are a water charity operating Nigeria, drilling boreholes as well as making emergency deliveries of water to desperate communities during the dry season. I've chosen to walk 6km each morning as that is the average distance many people in the developing world have to travel every day to fetch drinking water, but during the dry season in Nigeria the distance is often much further. It is estimated that during this time women and children spend an average of 5 hours each day fetching water which is often incredibly polluted and dangerous to drink. As you can imagine this often makes it impossible for children to attend school, and very difficult for women to undertake paid work in order to support their family.

Every year in Nigeria, 130,000 under 5s die from diarrhoea, that is one little life every four minutes. TASTE’s own research has shown a significant reduction in childhood illness as a result of borehole instillation. TASTE also work with communities to deliver basic hygiene education, to ensure health benefits are maximised.

I’m fundraising for TASTE because access to clean water should be a basic right not a privilege, and the £2000 needed to drill each borehole is enough to change the lives of thousands and thousands of people.