About 100 people took part in a six-kilometre walk through Langley City to raise awareness and money for clean, available water in Uganda.
Adults and children carried empty water containers from Langley City park to the Novus Glass building on Fraser Highway, filled up their containers and carried them back.
The journey is designed to let participants experience what people in Uganda go through every day, said Novus president Garry Skidmore.
“You’re not going to just feel it in the pocketbook, you’re going to feel it in your body,” Skidmore said.
Novus has donated $15,000 to help ACTS, the group hosting the event, to provide clean water to 16,500 Ugandans
ACTS builds gravity-flow systems to provide clean water to villages.
So far, the organization has completed 21 gravity-flow water projects that provide clean water to 162,000 people in rural Uganda.
For more info, visit http://acts.ca/walkforwater/.
