{"id":2086,"date":"2016-03-22T11:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2016-03-22T11:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:26:53","slug":"walking-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/walking-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking for Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Last week at the University of Kent, over 100 children from local schools braved the cold to\u00a0walk 6 kilometers with 6 litres\u00a0of water each to raise vital funds for charity.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkingforwater.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walking for Water<\/a>\u00a0helps support children in Africa who have to walk an average of 6km (4 miles) per day just to get clean drinking water.\u00a0David Mann, Walking for Water event organiser, was hopeful this year&#8217;s event would raise \u00a33-4000 for the charity, which provides clean water and sanitation for the residents of Muzuzu\u00a0in Malawi. It will also train local people to make, build, install and maintain well and sanitation equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The temperature may have been low but the spirits of the children taking part were high, and they were eager to get started on the trek.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Oli Prior, Kent Sport fitness team manager, said<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> \u2018I always look forward to the \u2018Walking for Water\u2019 warm-up as no matter how cold it is (5 degrees today) the kids always arrive with bundles of energy and are ready to walk to their hearts content. With other schools walking locally as well as partner schools in the Netherlands also taking part in the event, it is great to raise awareness of the daily challenges faced by the school children\u2019s African counterparts as well as raising vital funds for the charity\u2019.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you would like to support <b><i>Walk 4 Water on 24<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b><i><sup>th<\/sup><\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b><i> March 2017<\/i><\/b><\/span>, or donate to the Walking for Water fund, please contact <a href=\"mailto:dsmann50@msn.com\">dsmann50@msn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To stay up to date with Kent Sport news, events and special offers, Like us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unikentsports\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unikentsports\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<strong>UniKentSports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at the University of Kent, over 100 children from local schools braved the cold to\u00a0walk 6 kilometers with 6 litres\u00a0of water each to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/walking-for-water\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5725,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,124],"tags":[14562,156727,39999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}