Why we're walking, running & riding for water this October.
703 million people in the world – almost one in ten – do not have clean water close to home. Every day, women and children walk long distances to collect and carry water for their families. Girls and boys often begin collecting water as children and girls continue to collect and carry water throughout their lives. Many girls spend hours each day collecting water, which can cause them to miss time at school. And not only that, sometimes the water they are forced to collect is dirty, carrying water borne diseases and leading to sickness in their community.
This is why we need your help – we are asking you to walk for water, so that they don’t have to.
By walking, running or riding for five days, you can raise awareness and funds so people around the world can access clean water for the first time.
Please donate to my fundraising page to contribute to WaterAid's amazing work. For just $50, WaterAid could buy water system tools to provide a rural community with clean water.
The more people that know about WaterAid, the more we can achieve together.
Please spread the word by sharing my fundraising page with your friends and family. Thank you in advance for your generosity, it means a lot!
Yarra Valley Water 2025's wonderful sponsors
$1,000
Stows Waste Management
$500
Robert Fittock
$420
Anonymous
This donation is for walk for water aka happy hippo suit fashion parade cheers D
$250
New Plumbing Solutions
Good luck Cait and great work raising funds for such an important initiative.
$211
Sue Mackenzie
Bravo Caitee
$211
Lisa D
$211
Mitchell & Loughrey Engineers
Good one Laura!!
$200
Eliza Strauss
Go Chlo. xxx
$150
Robyn Johnson
Go Girl!
$115
Veronica Yang
$111
Antilla Advisory Pty Ltd
Well done Rish, it’s such a beautiful cause. We tend to take a lot of things for granted in Australia 😊. Good to remind ourselves sometime’s.
$106
Maryanne Tully
$106
Bugalugs
Joining me on the 30km walk in the hippo suit?
$106
Anonymous
$106
Paul Jackson
Go Bridie!
$106
Niamh Fitzpatrick
Awesome effort on your part Cait, for a great cause.
$106
Sally
Great cause! Jia You!
$106
Miklos Horvath
Great initiative Rish!
$106
Anonymous
A very worthy cause.
$106
Anonymous
$106
Evelyn Portek
$106
Trevor Alex
A great cause. All the best Rish.
$106
M Ichael Rose-miller
A good cause
$106
Dave Mclennan
Great effort for a great cause, all the best Cait
$106
Emma Strauss
Great initiative Chlo xx
$106
Janenne And Daniel
Go Sime!
$106
Jane Cumming
Good Luck Cait
$106
Lyn And Nick
What a great cause. Enjoy the walk
$106
Ann Nash
Good luck Caity
$106
Jbr
Good cause, great effort B. X J👏😊
$106
Dave Lange
Great cause Cait. Smash that target :)
$106
Anonymous
Go Cat!!!
$106
Mr
Great cause. Get cracking!
$106
Giorgianni & Liang Lawyers
Good Luck Daniel :)
$106
Nic B
$106
Ronda Younes
What a great initiative…. Wishing you and the team all the best
$106
Anonymous
$106
Anonymous
$106
Helen Mcvean
Good on you Stephanie!
$104
Lauren Marc
$100
Nadine & Sumit
Go Cait Go!
$100
Bernadette & Phil
Great cause. Well done Bec and YVW.
$100
Hanna Kadi
$100
Tamara Arunthavanathan
Great effort Rish
$100
Nick
Good on you Bridie!
$100
Anonymous
$100
Cam Smith
Go Team!
$100
Anonymous
Good on you
$100
Anonymous
$100
Lara Abdulhak
So proud of you !
$100
Amir El Halabi
Well done!!
$80
Emily Chim
$75
Dylan Clough
$70
Effective Tax Accounting
$65
Anonymous
For the one in ten!
$65
Anonymous
we all deserve clean water! Woo
$65
Anonymous
$60
Cristian
Well done, Grace! Happy walking!
$56
Anonymous
$54
Anonymous
$54
Katheresh Jayaprakash (kj)
Best wishes
$54
Veronica
Go team cat!
$54
Amy Crowe
Well done Ahlam!!
$54
Sue And Glenn
We are right behind you ……. In spirit of course 🤣
$54
Danushka Weeratunga
$54
Anonymous
$54
Carlina D
$54
Anonymous
Can't wait to see you rock the hippo suit - Go Bridie
$54
Kylie Ross
Go Chrissie go! You can do it.
$54
Lucy Martiniello
Good on you Sal - great cause!
$54
Anonymous
$54
Christine Lim
Cheering you on !!!
$54
Anonymous
If you get to $2K I want to see you in an inflatable hippo ballerina suit.
$54
Tony Wang
$54
Ian Furphy
$54
Mei Soo
Good luck and have fun!
$54
Sheya Szczurowski
Awesome work Cait!
$54
Anthea Horsley
All the best for the walk Stephanie :)
$54
Thurlow Family
Cheering you on Harold!! Fighting and Add Oil please!!
$54
Christine Yong
May God bless your journey with Him 🙏🏻
$54
Yenni Hwang
Such an amazing cause, jie! Your effort will make a difference - keep shining and pushing forward 💪💖
$54
Christine Vong
$54
Emily Rose
Good luck! Xxx
$54
Mum
Well done to you & team
$54
Misko M
$54
Shankar Ganesh
$54
Matthew Parnell
Happy running, walking and riding, Marta!
$54
Marta Frasca
Good on you good luck you doing a very good thing
$54
Kate Lowe
Always inspiring me girl, pls give us future water content 💙
$54
Arthur Chim
$54
Anonymous
$54
Emily Chim
$54
Tim
Onya Caity xx
$54
Anonymous
Prada you <3
$54
Haibin Zheng
Well done Rish, thanks for doing this for our kids!
$54
Leah Campbell-box
Go Cait, woohoo!
$54
Joanna Cooper
$54
Derheta Wagenaar
$54
Edward Mackenzie
Go Cait! Ed xx
$54
Mum And Dad
Go for it
$54
Alberto Vela
Go Bridie, looking forward what dress up you will wear next year!!
$54
Vinny And Jayne
What a great cause Sim
$54
Kirsty Bortolin
Go you good thing
$54
Felicity Gould
$54
Anonymous
Hip Hip(po) Horay for WaterAid!!!
$54
Peter Murphy
$54
Cindy Kozel
$54
Samantha Phelps
Let's go Jacqui!!!
$54
Lesley Ryall
$54
David Zropf
Well done Bridie! Go for it!
$54
Peter Murphy
$54
Peter Murphy
$54
Denham Melder
I will pay more if run and don't walk :)
$54
Peter Murphy
$54
Julie Mouka
$54
Anonymous
$54
Ash Hamer
$54
Bridie Fennessy
Go you good thing. Looking forward to seeing you flipping a flipper again very soon. 🦈
$54
Anonymous
Good on you, Ahlam!
$54
Jade Carter
Dive right in Darling! Good luck! X
$54
Muzz
Awesome effort
$54
Kimjan Achilles
$54
Anonymous
$54
Mary Cox
So good, enjoy it and well done 😊
$54
Emma Doyle
$54
Patrick Doyle
$54
Alberto Vela
Go, go, go Charisse!!
$54
Russo’s
$54
Liz Cosham
Lets GO!!!!!!!
$54
Anonymous
Go go hone, burn some fats.
$54
Leslee Spiess
$54
Edwina Shakespeare
Well done Cait! You are an inspiration!
$54
Nadine Kadi
Well done Ahlam 🙌🏼
$54
Tas Khanam
$54
Stephen Pepping
$54
David Johnston
Walk strong you wonderful woman
$54
Emilya Umashankar
$54
Alana Hannaford
$54
Anonymous
If you get to $2k I want to see you in an inflatable hippo ballerina suit.
$54
Anonymous
If you get to $2k I want to see you in an inflatable hippo ballerina suit.
$54
Anonymous
If you get to $2k I want to see you in the inflatable hippo ballerina suit
$54
Aaron Taing
35 for the huge 35k walk
$53
Anonymous
$53
Anonymous
$53
Anonymous
$53
Leisa
$53
Alice S
Well done Grace and team - happy walking this week!
$53
Anonymous
Sweaty
$53
Anonymous
$53
Anonymous
$50
Jess
Go Lozzlepops!!
$50
Statewide Air And Noise
Good luck with your walk Charisse
$50
Vicky
Good on you, Grace!
$50
Kaimani Hendry
$50
Rob
Woo! Go Team!
$50
Rob
Woo! Go Team!
$50
Rob
Woo! Go Team!
$50
Rob
Woo! Go Team!
$50
Shah Choudhury
$50
Anna Cummins
$50
Rob Fittock
Go Team!
$50
Rob Fittock
Go Team!
$50
Noni R
Good on you!
$50
Nicole Karidis
$50
Robert Fittock
$50
Anonymous
$50
Rob
Woo! Go Team!
$50
Rob
Woo! Go Team!
$50
Anonymous
All the best Marcus
$50
Marc Warshall
Good luck, Tony.
$50
Tony Citera
$50
Sally Crook
$50
Shahadat Khan
Abbu, proud of this great idea. Abbu
$50
Amanda Tou
$50
Anna Tran
Go Henry!
$50
Anwara Happy
Dear Rish, I appreciate your delightful initiative 🎉♥️. It is of course a well deserved approach👏👏👏. Thank you, Anwara
$50
Rish Khan
$50
Badia Naoufal
Gooooooo Ahlam 🩷
$50
Tori
Go Cait, go! ☺️
$50
Jorde & Will
Yay Ferg!
$50
Jody Altmann
$50
Priyanka Kaur
$50
Marz Raul.
$47
Sarah Vogels
Go Cat !!
$44
Grace
With thanks to the S&C baking crew
$44
Andrea Tou
WOO GO HENZ!
$44
Sinead And Sheng
Wonderful thing to do! :)
$40
Mad Snake
$39
Anonymous
This should help reach your target now 😎
$36
Steve P
$33
Ashley Crook
You got this!
$33
Yola Armstrong
Thanks for the sweet treats
$33
Chi Thurlow
Thank you Harold for raising awareness for such a great cause!!
$33
Katrina Theophanous
Great cause
$33
Emma Hallam
Go Cait!!!!
$33
Ajit Shiwakoti
$33
Anonymous
$33
Alex Duong
Great work
$33
Anonymous
Happy walking!! Xx
$33
Ellen Vitis
All the best Paisley, im sure youll reach both your goals. Ellen
$33
Anonymous
$33
Belinda Macdonald
$32
Ervina
$32
Poppy
Good luck Chloe :))
$30
Jenny Crook
You go Sal!!
$30
Jenny Klingler
Good on you Cait.
$30
Rishiram
Thank you Agit ji for your great contribution and initiation
$30
James Imbuido
Good job Mom 💜 Love youu
$30
Tammy Hau
Good Luck!!!!
$30
Anne Nguyen
Good luck Henry!
$30
Stephen Pepping
$29
Niamh Fitzpatrick
$28
Emily Moss
You go girl!
$28
Anonymous
$28
Joseph Tran
$28
Jerzy Zywicki
$28
Anne
Go Sal!
$28
Tim Cummins
$28
Lisa Mcfadyen
$28
Sarah D
Goodluck Sal!
$28
Eliza Fazackerley
$28
Rhiannon
Run Keith Run!
$28
Andrew G
$28
Adam Kay
$28
Denham Melder
$28
Denham Melder
$28
Nicole
Smash it, Sal!! Xxxx
$28
Liz Gordon
Nothing watered down about this effort 💙💙💙💙
$28
Lily Zahiri
$28
Paul & Emily
WaterAlice WaterAid WaterAwesome
$28
Tony Wise
$28
Chloe Webb
Keep on walking!
$28
Paul Golsworthy
Let's go Jaws!
$28
Paul Golsworthy
$28
Daniel Vlahek
Let's go Marta!
$28
Paul Golsworthy
$28
Paul Golsworthy
$28
Amber Pyke
$28
Paul Golsworthy
$28
Paul Golsworthy
$28
Tony Wise
$28
Paul Golsworthy
$28
Paul Golsworthy
$28
Anonymous
$28
Sarah Webb
Go kick water!
$28
Ken
Let's go team!!!
$28
Emily Chim
$28
Davi De Leon
$28
Meg O'brien
$28
Jacqui Phelps
$28
Alex Forsyth
$28
Vali Xx
Xx
$28
Skye
$28
Tom Rice
$28
James Box
$28
Amy Marshall
$28
Stephen Pepping
$28
Stephen Pepping
$28
Rhiannon Matthews
Walk, run, ride Paul!
$28
Rhiannon Matthews
Keep hustling Steph!
$27
Bridget Lansell
Go Chloe!
$26
Nicole
Go Yola :)
$25
Anonymous
$25
Robert Mladenis
$25
Robert Mladenis
$25
Anonymous
Good luck with the walk hishanee
$25
Shantanu Bendre
$25
Anita Moy
$25
Bianca Mori
Go Alice!
$25
Nichola Tranter
$25
Alison Miller
$25
Adrianna And Mathew
$25
Anonymous
$23
Stacey Davine
$23
Anonymous
Great to be funding a hippo parade as part of Walk for Water!
$23
John Ryan
Stay out of the lake sharks spotted!
$23
Simon Eastwell
There's something fishy going on here.....It may be an AI generated land shark!
$23
Li Guanhui
$23
Jodi Tran
Let’s goooo Harold! 🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️
$23
Chi & Jo
Full support and blessings!
$23
Anonymous
$23
Anonymous
If you get to $2k I want to see you in an inflatable hippo ballerina suit.
$23
Catia Cardamone
Go chlo xx
$23
Naresh Singh
$23
Raju Subedi
$23
Ivana Tot
Fantastic effort Catherine!
$23
Anonymous
$23
Sophie Nicolas
well done sis, what a great fundraiser!
$23
Tony Wise
$23
Bron Morphett
$23
Bron Morphett
$23
Bron Morphett
$23
Anonymous
$23
Bee Kum Ong
$23
Tony Wise
$23
Dimitria Mioni
So proud!
$23
Anonymous
$23
Cindy
$23
Ange Clark
Go Cat!! 🏃🏻♀️
$23
Leslie Timm
Go Cat!!!
$23
Daniel Hanratty
We’re right behind you Hannie 😜
$23
Jac
$23
Liam Kirk-williams
Good on you!
$23
Sarah Furnell
Go Marta!
$23
Natalie
You’re amazing Henry!!! 🫶
$23
Mary Kipouridis
Good luck Cait! An amazing effort and great cause.
$23
Phil Astle
$23
Stephen Pepping
$23
Michel Esparon
Good effort
$23
Anonymous
Well done!
$22
Heather Singleton
Well done Cait. Good luck!
$22
Lydia Eastwell
$22
Lucy Martin
Go Ferg!
$21
Anish Sedhai
Happy to donate for a cause
$20
Marta Malchevski
$20
Meep Moop
Woohooo
$20
Mark Edwardson
Hippo suit here you come!
$20
Ajanta Kadam
Go for it Ervina
$20
Theary Yorn
Good on ya Ervina!
$20
Suzana Mouneimne
$20
Anonymous
$20
Mohita Sahni
Love ya, Sal! Be sure to carb load at the end 🍔
$20
Curt
Keep on keeping on!
$20
Lily R
$20
Henry Nguyen
Go Tal!! The orange cake was amazing 😍
$20
Umesh B C
Thank you Ajit for suggesting me to make a small contribution to the WaterAid Australia Overseas Aid Fund. I really appreciate your thoughtful encouragement.
$20
Angela Stacy
Well done Cat and Henry 💙🐶
$20
Hannah Hanratty
Go Mary!
$20
Gupta Sreerama
Hey Rish, Keep up the great work! Every effort counts, and I’m proud to support your mission.
$20
James Hammond
$20
James Hammond
$20
Jill Jonkers
Go Hannah
$20
Henry Ridgway
Better get walking butt face. These dollars don’t walk themselves 🤑💸💰
$20
Anonymous
$20
Fineberg Migration Services
Well done Daniel!
$20
Samantha Doumtses
$20
M Kim
🩵💙🩵💙🩵
$20
Neha Mathur
ILY HEN🩷
$17
Patricia Vaz
$17
Douglas Abrahams
$15
Helen
This is a great cause
$15
Lilli Nonneman
$12
Ava Cole
Excellent Vanilla Cake!
$12
Anonymous
If you get to $2k I want to see you in the inflatable hippo ballerina suit)
$12
Sophy Chia
Good job!
$12
Bazz
$12
Shirley Hon
$12
Hippidy Hippo
$12
Anonymous
$12
F G
Happy to support!
$12
Amy Yang
Go Jacqui!!!
$12
Fiona Tran
$12
Anonymous
$12
Lisian Teh
$12
Shilpi Jain
$12
Anonymous
$12
Elena
Well done Cat
$12
Eliza Fazackerley
Thanks for the sweet treat Grace (for a good cause)!
$12
Eliza Fazackerley
Thanks for the sweet treats!!
$12
Michelle Dyason
$12
Hayley Hirkins
$12
Tuaha Shakir
$11
Henry
Go Kamalesh! Best of luck mate :)
$11
Abi Sia
$10
Cat
Thanks for the cakes!
$10
Asoka Jayaratne
$10
Anonymous
$10
Anonymous
Thanks for the baked goodie!!
$10
Henry Nguyen
Thanks for the delicious treat!!
$10
Henry Nguyen
Hard to resist a cookie for a good cause!
$10
Robert Fittock
$10
Anonymous
Great cookies
$7
Ollie
Good work mum 👍🏻🤩
$6
Keedan Rigney
Donut.
$6
Anonymous
$6
Anonymous
Love a bake sale!
$6
Anonymous
$6
Helen Roberts-ferguson
Can’t resist your baking, grace!
$6
Sameer Sreenivas
Good luck!
$6
Turan Kilderry
$5
Anonymous
$5
Elvis Yow
$5
Josh
Go mum! I'll walk too!
$3
Anonymous
Our Team Members
Nivi Ravikumar
$25
jayant pande
$25
Keith McCarthy
$53
Dilshan Perera
$25
David Diaz
$25
Ankita Batra
$25
Ryan George
$25
Keerthana Muhunthan
$25
Alex Forsyth
$53
Tuaha Shakir
$12
Gerry Lukman
David Wong
$53
Adam Anthony
$79
Ravinder Nautiyal
$25
Ab Haseeb
$25
Flora Huang
$25
Rish Khan
$1,024
Ornella Onofrio
$25
Alex Tu
$25
Raaga Laasya Kondamudi
Liran Podolsky
$25
Tony Citera
$125
Marta Malchevski
$304
Anna Cummins
$131
Ahlam El Halabi
$886
Erika Ashton
$54
Michael Coulthard
$25
Sandy Hung
$25
Simon Eastwell
$75
Caillan Smith
$25
Zinab Al-Khaleefa
$79
Tristan Rennick
$25
Sutejo Tan
$25
Ervina Shin
$181
Jerzy Zywicki
$53
Lauren Marc
$386
Laura Barstow
$435
Kimjan Achilles
$79
Shervi Susanto
$25
Henry Nguyen
$344
Rebecca King
$25
Amber Moore
$25
aaron taing
$53
Vaibhav Kotnala
$25
Jess Staaf
$25
Lynsey Bates
$25
Evan Grosvenor
$25
Cindy Kozel
$79
Jimmy Strack
$25
Marcus Bleechmore
$75
Nichola Tranter
$50
Kate Ashley-Griffiths
$25
Laura Lambe
$25
Amanda Thomson
$25
Reynaldo Alabastro
$25
Gillian Seery
$25
Stacey Shepherd
$37
Youri Casselein
$25
Brendan Hart
$25
Christine Ng
$25
Sandeep Tomar
$25
Ken Singh
$25
Josee Picard
$25
Ben Martial
$58
Larriana Morgan
$25
Nick Sund
$95
Kamalesh Ravikumar
$36
Thilini Amarasooriya
$25
Christina Kalathas
$99
Rachael Errington
$25
Mathew Ramunno
$25
Daniel Verberne
$37
Naveen Arukgoda
$25
Rebecca Rees
$203
Divyansh Sharma
$25
Antoinette Servos
$25
Hannah Wilson
$48
Chloe Merbis
$728
Daniel Jarin
$79
Matt Mullens
$25
Hannah Hanratty
$68
Turan Kilderry
$25
Shantanu Bendre
$50
Eliza Negus
$25
Themba Pasi
$25
Waqas Muhammad
Simon Willis
$400
Boden Hurst
$25
Jocelyn Jaocb
$25
Amber Pyke
$53
Nancy Rawat
$25
Gary Griffin
Sarah Marsh
$25
Caitlin Petersen
$133
Dylan Clough
$100
Jacqui Phelps
$264
Daniel Fonseca
$183
Paisley Wight
$58
Adrianna Beharry
$50
Kenneth Liu
$25
Leo Lazarus
$65
Zoe Larkin
$25
Nicole Kolze
$25
Ash Hamer
$161
Diwakar Pokharel
$25
Virginia Cairns
$25
Natalie Foeng
$25
Tess Ellett
$25
chris farrow
$25
Sona Parashar
$25
Chung Li
$53
Ryan Jamieson
$25
Lara Eastwell
$25
Harold Yow
$700
christie margin
$25
Lisa Ehrenfried
$129
Brenda
$25
Yuanchao Cheng
$25
Michelle Lowry
$25
Keedan Rigney
$25
Nancy ZHAO
$25
Ewa Chlipala
$25
Ann Phan
$25
Cat Nicolas
$513
Arthur Chim
$105
Carlina Doumtses
$99
Yunal Kumar
$25
Alex Tarulli
$107
leisa brough
$78
Ajit Shiwakoti
$281
Julie Bright
$25
Suniti Ruparelia
$53
Jesika Hayes
$25
Laura Mahoney
$25
Ava Cole
$91
Jason Lim
$129
Orry Thomas
$25
Nura Y
$25
Nina Braid
$25
William Baker
$25
Andre Dana
$25
Shankar Ganesh
$145
Neelesh Joshi
$25
Jacqui Patterson
$25
Allan Cole
$25
Felix Edwards
$25
Cynthia Wong
$23
Neil Webb
$101
Patricia Vaz
$42
Matthew Read
$25
Aurora Villanueva
$25
Thessa Barut
$25
Skye Handley
$53
Paris Pollock
$53
Fergus McKittrick
$211
Felicity Gould
$102
Davi de Leon
$53
Cait Doyle
$133
Nicole Bradley
$25
Lydia Eastwell
$47
Daniela Mazzini
$25
Niamh Fitzpatrick
$54
John Ryan
$113
Nikko Chan
$25
Nova Irawati
$25
Meg O'Brien
$53
Emily Chim
$107
Jen Sweatman
$25
Kristen Knight
$131
Jarrad Legg
$25
Chris Ennab
$138
Eliza Fazackerley
$53
Alison Miller
$50
Penny Reid
$200
cameron preston
$25
Stephanie Salinas
$1,527
JOANNA MIDDLETON
$53
Steph Low
$25
Stephen Pepping
$79
Adam Smith
$25
Jess Brooks
$175
venkat kandregula
$25
Mathew Clements
$25
James Box
$53
Monique Galloway
$25
Sally Crook
$350
Ryan Chaffey
$25
Corali Duncan
$78
Alice Yuen
$25
Shilpi Jain
$37
Robert Fittock
$873
Michelle Dyason
$79
Cait Mackenzie
$1,703
Leanne McKinley
$25
Amy Marshall
$53
Julia Boyle
$25
Paul Golsworthy
$53
Charisse
$129
Luke Curran
$25
Nicole Freiberg
$25
Veronica Imbuido
$269
Bridie Fennessy
$1,805
Georgia Brown
$100
Grace Rose-Miller
$851
Ugyen Choden
$25
Ry Parrott
$25
Alice Greenhill
$332
Joanna Cooper
$79
Priya Elangovan
$79
Fiona Byrne
$25
Natalia Quinn
$118
Ruth McDonnell
$125
Rhiannon Matthews
$53
Mary Ioannidis
$101
Maryanne Tully
$25
Helen Roberts-Ferguson
$25
We’re proud to support your efforts for WaterAid. Clean water changes lives, and your dedication to this cause is inspiring. Wishing you great success with the fundraiser!