Why we're walking, running & riding for water this October.
696 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 2026's wonderful sponsors
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Anonymous
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Scott Hubber
Well Done Kristen, love supporting this amazing organisation WaterAid. Your efforts and our donations change lives which is AWESOME - well done !!!!!!!
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Robert Fittock
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Conrad Amos
Great cause … inspired effort as always from you KK.
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Mark & Amber Edwardson
Kristen you are a star! An incredible Walk for Water effort in support of such a great cause!
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Anonymous
Good work Laura!
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Damian Ronan
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Anonymous
Well done, stay strong, keep going.
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Cam Smith
Go Team for the win! :)
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Philip Morison
good luck Benny and well done
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Paul Golsworthy
That's amore 👌🚣♀️👩🍳
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Paul F
Top job KK
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Michael Ridgway
Start your power walking now!
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Erika Hill
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Rob Fittock
Amazing work KK - love your effort, both physical and on the fundraising front.
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Jimmy Soesanto
Good luck for the walk, what a great cause !
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Gabriellea Abraham
All the best Steph! So proud of you! What a wonderful cause 🥰♥️
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Bri
So much better than getting around as a blow-up ballerina hippo!
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Anthea Horsley
Happy to support you Stephanie, this is a great cause, i hope you really enjoy the walk :) Kindest Regards Anthea
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Bridie
You’re a well planned walking/swimming/rowing/caving lune KK and we love you for it. 👏💪💕
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Judith Ridgway
Great to hear B, a very worthy cause. J 👏😊
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Linnea
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Imran Darwiche
Good on you, Stephanie. Clean water and sanitation are things most of us never think twice about. Happy to support you and WaterAid.
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Kate Van Liehout
Love this idea! And loved rafting with you along the beautiful Birrarung. Go champ!
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Simon Willis
Epic effort Adventure Queen, well done!
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Mary Kanavoutsos
Amazing work Kristen for such an important cause!
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Hieu Dang
Keep going Champ !
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Anonymous
Great work Mark!
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Arthur Chim
Keep those steps up girl!
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Sharon And Trevor Negus
Great cause Eliza
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Jonnine
Well done Eliza!
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Percy
Go KK Go 🐕🦺❤️💧🔫
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Sharyn Twist
Fantastic work KK - i have loved following your Walk for Water adventures!
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Anonymous
Good work Ben.
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Binura Kulasinghe
Good on you Ben!
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Jared Mee
Great work, great cause!
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Will
Awesome work Kristen!
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Steve Pepping
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Ry Parrott
Amazing effort in amazing style Kristen!
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Tiffany White
Go Kristen, go!!!
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Karyn Knight
Impressive effort for a great cause.
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Bernadette Rees
Well done Bec! Great cause. Mum and Dad x
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Bec B
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Rebecca Kennedy
You’re a legend!
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Lindsay Bridge
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Sally Crook
Watch your back 🔫
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Renwick Chan
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Luke Dickson
Glad I didn’t have to ride with you this time. I couldn’t walk after the last one!
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Andrew Radion
Go team!
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Love Luffy
Well done Ferg!
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Ferg Is My Favourite Sailor
Get it Fergy!
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💧🐕🦺👏❤️
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Kellie Massouras
Great job!!!
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Lara Eastwell
watch your back! at all times!
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Skanda Deshpande
Amazing efforts Kristen! We are all behind you :)
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Tarnya
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Nicholas Pouki
Good job Mexican
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Tommie Conway
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Brayden Haney
Not bad effort
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Kat Costello
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Charley May
Well done on a stellar walking effort and a great fundraising campaign.
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Anonymous
Good on ya Chaz xx
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Carl Morton
Good on you mate (come on ex Wilmar team support Phil in a good cause)
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Kevin Deely
Great work Kristen
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Deborah Cownley
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Che Turner
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Linda Dickinson
Congratulations for getting involved Charley. Hope it’s a great walk for you.
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Cynthia
Hope is nice and cool along the Birrarung! Amazing effort :)
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Shreya Kanunjna
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Ian Deutscher
Go Deb. Great cause!
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Gillian Seery
Amazing effort, Kristen!
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Jemma Crawford
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Mark Edwardson
Keep on walking Legend!
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Daniel Fitzpatrick
Awesome effort Kristen!
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Helen Campbell
Good on you Charley May
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Jo Allan
Go Chazzle. You are a good human and I'm proud of you xx
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Ash Hamer
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Beth Morison
You're doing great work for a very important cause! Good luck
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Vince
Great work Kristen!
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Eliza Negus
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Andrew Coldrey
Well done Charley!!
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Lauren Mittiga
Go Kirsten!
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Ainsley
Go Eliza!
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Alex Gray
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Joe Finneran
best of luck Steph
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Peta Postma
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Jo Cooper
GO Kristen!!
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Michelle Langsdon
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Johnrobyn Vroland
Well done Kate and Hilly
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Claire Davis
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Sandra Cownley
Have fun
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Georgiana Salinas
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Stephen Pepping
Well done. Fantastic Effort
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James Box
Inspiring effort!
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Leah Campbell-box
Awesome effort. I'm unable to participate this year for medical reasons, so I'm happy to support you :)
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Rachael Smart
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Vix Penko
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Toby Prosser
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Stephanie Salinas
Let's goooooo KK
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Neil Webb
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Emily Chim
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Winnie
Let's go, its walking time again!
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Kateri
You’re my hero
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Joanna Middleton
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Kylie
Good job stephy xx
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David Radford
Well done Charley and team. A wonderful cause.
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Ruth Mcdonnell
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Sarina Loo
Fabulous work Kristen! Such a worthy cause.
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Gordon & Catherine
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Damien Bassett
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Fergus Mckittrick
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Siwan Lovett
Happy walking Ruth, one step at a time and always making a difference xx
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Ajit Shiwakoti
Keep Walking Steph!
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Carlina Doumtses
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Leanne Lane
Such an awesome effort and have loved the photo updates
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Kylie Murphy
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Sally Crook
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Laura Barstow
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James Box
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Linda
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Jenna & Brett
Well done Deb! 👏👏 Thanks goodness for people like you in the world xx good luck!
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Claire K
Nice work Bride xxx
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Debbie Stephens
Go Kristen !!!! You are smashing it
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Hannah Clement
Great cause!
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Anonymous
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Louise Brough
Good one Charley.
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Angus Currie And Isaac Milnes
Great Cause Kate! Keep it up ❤️
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Chris Eede
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Jarrod
Good luck Steph!
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Anonymous
Thank you for doing this, Eliza. You are an extremely kind soul. I’m grateful the world has someone like you.
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Marta Malchevski
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Suz
Get it girl!
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Marg Kyle
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James
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Natasha Dun
Inspired by you muscles!!! Keep it up! 💪💪💪
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Kate Rae
Go you good thing!
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Anonymous
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Julie
Well done Charley xx
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Chloe
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Stacey Redford
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Liv Lewis
Well done Lau!!
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Holly Gillespie
Loser
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Anonymous
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Henry Nguyen
Go Kristen!! Well done 😁
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Virginia A
Such an impressive approach. Have fun!
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Magnus Bradley
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Rosie O'loughlin
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Anonymous
Thanks Sutejo for helping a good cause! Enjoy the walk with your colleagues :)
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Charley May
Looking forward to taking part and wishing fellow walkers all the best!
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Prabhat Samir
Well done! Great work, Prachi.
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Anonymous
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Anita Coia
$34
Alex Tarulli
Great work KK!!
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Alexa Miller
Good on you Eliza ❤️
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Liz Baykey
Proud of you babe xxx
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Jarrad Legg
5x marathoner in ONE month!!
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Anonymous
Great cause!
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Lizzie Winship
$34
Suniti Ruparelia
Well done Kristen, your amazing and smashing this years Walk for Water. Well done!
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Ren
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Darcy
Wew go Prachi!
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Paige Fergus
Smashing it, KK!
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Issa
What an amazing cause! 👏
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Piuli Samir
Well done Prachi! Walking for a great cause
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David Norman
$7000 hit, well done Kristen fantastic effort, keeping civilisation hydrated
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Sam Ackerly
Go Elma!!!
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Darshana Pradhan
Well done di
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Henry Nguyen
Lesgooo Ferg!
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Mike Sest
$29
Anonymous
Go Steph
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Anonymous
Well done Elma. Xx
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Alberto Vela
Go Kristen, what a great way to do fundraising!!
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Eliza Fazackerley
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Pradeep
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Anonymous
$29
David Jettner
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Jayden & Dylan
Great job Natasha’s mum!!!
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Emily Chim
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Emily Chim
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Peter C Cameron
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Kara L
Great work Eliza! Such an important cause!
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Luke Curran
$29
Kate
$29
Jacq
Pls bagpipe and hike on Friday
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Amber Pyke
$29
Ben Morison
$29
Skye
$29
Brian Cole
Good luck Simone!
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Lucy Cole
Good on you for doing it Simone, It’s a worthy cause.
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Anonymous
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John Ryan
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Chanel And Candace
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Kate Berg
Love your work Kristen
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Mario Ferra
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Lorraine James
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D J
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Caitlyn Bassett
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Anonymous
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Roslyn Shipton
Well done Kristen !!
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Elma
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Alison Miller
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Adram
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Ken Liu
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Dhanesh
Good Luck !!
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Brie Jowett
Go Kristen!
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Go Ange!
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Tanya
Well done Phil
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Tom, Mae & Ralph
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Tanya
Enjoy your walks 😊
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Anonymous
Well done Laura!
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Jemma Isaac
Good luck Deb xx
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Anna Couvara
You are a special person Deb. Well done 👏
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Lachlan Davis
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Brigid Duckmanton
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Liz Al Raeesi
Get it lady! xx
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Steve Pepping
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Begum Rahena
Good work Prachi
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Ruth
Awesome work KK! And thanks for organising our fabulous AS event where we all got to connect with the Birrarung and each other for a good cause
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Ruth
Great to be part of the Walk for Water Team with you Prachi!
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Ash Naylor
Top Job KK. Ash & Kathryn
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Redelle Gowler
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Urmi
lesgooooooo
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Lisa Anelli
Well done Kristen - you are the official the YVW Walk for Water Queen !
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Anonymous
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Leigh Cole
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Bronwyn Hinz
Good job for a good cause
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Andrew Kay
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Anonymous
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Rachael D
Amazing effort - well done!!
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Anonymous
Yaaaasssss gurrrrl!!!
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Jan Heib
Congratulations Bec on a tremendous achievement
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Lydia ☺️
So good KK!
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Ruvi
Well done Simone! What a great cause x
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Duncan Agius
Great job Bec. hope your legs have a speedy recovery :)
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Cynthia W
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Hayden
🌊
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Nic
Go Amber!
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Nic
Go Dani!
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Nic
Go Em!
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Nic
Go Penny!
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Nic
Go Eliza!
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Nic
Go Ken!
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Simone J
Amazing effort, Laura! Such a wonderful cause to be supporting.
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Casey Teasdale
Go Lau, thank you for doing this x
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Andrew Volk
Well done Kristen. Smashing it!
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Kamalesh
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Anonymous
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Farial
Great cause! You got this!
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Anonymous
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Mikalie
Awesome job Laura ❤️
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Sarah Thompson
Awesome work congratulations Bec!!!
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Jamie Lee Burke
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Anonymous
Go b dawg!
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Anonymous
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Ken
Let’s go team!
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Jane Finlay
Farewell Tal & here’s a year of endless morning teas!
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Jerzy
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Chloe Joslin
$12
Hailey Bassett
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Ren
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Nishan Fernando
$10
Jennifer Lay
$10
Hannah Mckittrick
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Simon Thomas
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Penny Reid
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Alejandra Salinas
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Our Team Members
Mario Ferra
$54
Redelle Gowler
$49
Sudeep Jolly
$25
Simone Cole
$204
Prachi Samir
$269
Ben Beattie
$25
Keerthana Muhunthan
Mark Elvins
$132
Mike Sest
$54
Troy Sutton
$25
Lubana Syed
$25
Henry Stephens
$25
Laura Nix
$25
Derek Tsao
$25
Shovana Pradhan
$55
James Pitts
$25
Laura Winterbach
$333
Thomas Yan
$125
Renae Measom
$80
Charley May
$565
Justin Bernard Arce
$25
Andrea Doyle
$50
Danni Ramalingam
$74
Hailey Bassett
$166
Robyn Allen
$70
Melissa Sartori
$25
Angela Siderakis
$50
Anthony Tannous
$25
Mac Reyes
$53
Elma Slaughter
$109
Charlotte Weston
$25
Deborah Cownley
$340
Amal Amarsi
$25
William Baker
$25
Harry Zhan
$25
Phil Doyle
$135
erinq nancarrow
$25
Keerthana Muhunthan
$25
Candice Sargent
$151
Sutejo Tan
$65
Laura Barstow
$750
Gillian Seery
$25
Christina Kalathas
$25
Mathew Ramunno
$25
Naveen Arukgoda
$25
Rebecca Rees
$314
Hannah Hanratty
$25
Eliza Negus
$520
Amber Pyke
$74
Nicole Kolze
$25
chris farrow
$25
Carlina Doumtses
$104
Yunal Kumar
$25
Ken Liu
$45
Leisa Brough
$25
Orry Thomas
$49
Neil and Kuma
$81
Skye Handley
$54
Fergus McKittrick
$544
Davi de Leon
$25
Cait Doyle
$25
Daniela Mazzini
$74
Dean Gava
$25
John Ryan
$54
Julian Hill
$25
Kate van Lieshout
$225
Emily Chim
$152
Jen Sweatman
$25
Kristen Knight
$8,080
Jemma Crawford
$81
Eliza Fazackerley
$74
Penny Reid
$124
cameron preston
$25
Stephanie Salinas
$3,864
Rosie O'Loughlin
$25
JOANNA MIDDLETON
$81
venkat kandregula
$25
James Box
$75
Sally Crook
$75
Alice Yuen
$25
Shilpi Jain
$25
Robert Fittock
$1,132
Charisse
$25
Luke Curran
$54
Nicole Freiberg
$25
Bridie Fennessy
$483
Natalie Foeng
$175
Georgia Brown
$25
Ben Morison
$652
Ruth McDonnell
$136
Clean water and safe sanitation should be a given. Proud to support this. Good on you for taking this on. WaterAid does work that matters. Everyone deserves clean water and a safe toilet. Happy to help get there. Small contribution to a big cause. Go well.