Walk for Water 5k
- Date Sat 3rd October 2026
- Time 10:00AM PDT
- Location Los Angeles, California
- Price $22.20 - $64.60
- Races 3 races
- Distances 5km
Event summary
Join us on Saturday, October 3, 2026, for the inspiring Walk for Water 5K in beautiful Los Angeles! This charity fundraiser invites you to experience a transformative journey while raising awareness for the water crisis affecting millions in Africa. As you traverse the flat and scenic Main Trail at Griffith Park, you’ll take 7,000 steps—mirroring the daily trek many women and girls endure to access clean water.
With the goal of raising $250,000 to fund deep borehole wells and rural piping systems in Ethiopia, your participation can directly change lives. Imagine providing clean, safe drinking water to 63,000 individuals—12,600 families—who currently face the dangers and hardships of collecting unclean water. This event isn't just a walk; it's a powerful statement of solidarity and hope for a better future. Register today, gather your friends and family, and let’s walk together to bring water home!
With the goal of raising $250,000 to fund deep borehole wells and rural piping systems in Ethiopia, your participation can directly change lives. Imagine providing clean, safe drinking water to 63,000 individuals—12,600 families—who currently face the dangers and hardships of collecting unclean water. This event isn't just a walk; it's a powerful statement of solidarity and hope for a better future. Register today, gather your friends and family, and let’s walk together to bring water home!
Organiser's Description
Walk Their Journey. Change Their Future.
Join us for a powerful and transformative experience at the Walk for Water 5K Charity Fundraiser, co-hosted by Pathway To Tomorrow and Drop of Water. This isnt just a walkits a step into the daily reality that millions of women and girls in Africa face just to access something as basic as water.
Every day, women and girls spend 200 million hours hauling unclean water, often walking miles under a burning sun, along dangerous paths, carrying heavy containers. Every two minutes, a child dies from a water-borne disease, and 1.5 million children under five die annually in Africa from diarrhea caused by unsafe water.
Ethiopia, Africas second most populous country, is in the grip of this devastating water crisis. NEARLY HALF OF ITS 125 MILLION PEOPLE LACK ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER, ACCORDING TO UNICEF.
The situation is even worse in rural areas where 80% of Ethiopians live and are hit hardest by this crisis, forcing women and girls to walk long distances just to find unclean water. Girls are expected to miss school to collect water for their families. Each journey robs a girl of her education, her safety, and her childhood. For far too many, these walks end in tragedies, like gender-based violence and death not just exhaustion.
We walk not just for awarenessbut for action.
This 5K fundraiser challenges participants to take 7,000 steps, representing the average distance many walk each day to collect water. As you walk, youll carry not just stepsbut stories. Stories of resilience, hardship, and hope. You'll walk in solidarity with those who cant just turn on a tap.
Were asking each participant to go further by asking friends, family, and coworkers to sponsor their steps with a donation to the cause, or join their team to fundraise or walk alongside them!
Our goal? To raise $250,000funding 2 deep borehole wells and rural piping systems in up to 4 villages in Ethiopia. This will provide clean, safe, and sustainable drinking water for up to 63,000 peoplethats 12,600 families who will no longer have to send their daughters into danger just to survive another day.
YOUR STEPS CAN CHANGE A LIFE. YOUR WALK CAN BUILD A WELL.
Register today. Walk their path. Bring water home.
The 5K route is along the Main Trail at Griffith Park - 4800 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027
The course is flat, scenic and shaded, covering the perimeter of the golf course.
Join us for a powerful and transformative experience at the Walk for Water 5K Charity Fundraiser, co-hosted by Pathway To Tomorrow and Drop of Water. This isnt just a walkits a step into the daily reality that millions of women and girls in Africa face just to access something as basic as water.
Every day, women and girls spend 200 million hours hauling unclean water, often walking miles under a burning sun, along dangerous paths, carrying heavy containers. Every two minutes, a child dies from a water-borne disease, and 1.5 million children under five die annually in Africa from diarrhea caused by unsafe water.
Ethiopia, Africas second most populous country, is in the grip of this devastating water crisis. NEARLY HALF OF ITS 125 MILLION PEOPLE LACK ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER, ACCORDING TO UNICEF.
The situation is even worse in rural areas where 80% of Ethiopians live and are hit hardest by this crisis, forcing women and girls to walk long distances just to find unclean water. Girls are expected to miss school to collect water for their families. Each journey robs a girl of her education, her safety, and her childhood. For far too many, these walks end in tragedies, like gender-based violence and death not just exhaustion.
We walk not just for awarenessbut for action.
This 5K fundraiser challenges participants to take 7,000 steps, representing the average distance many walk each day to collect water. As you walk, youll carry not just stepsbut stories. Stories of resilience, hardship, and hope. You'll walk in solidarity with those who cant just turn on a tap.
Were asking each participant to go further by asking friends, family, and coworkers to sponsor their steps with a donation to the cause, or join their team to fundraise or walk alongside them!
Our goal? To raise $250,000funding 2 deep borehole wells and rural piping systems in up to 4 villages in Ethiopia. This will provide clean, safe, and sustainable drinking water for up to 63,000 peoplethats 12,600 families who will no longer have to send their daughters into danger just to survive another day.
YOUR STEPS CAN CHANGE A LIFE. YOUR WALK CAN BUILD A WELL.
Register today. Walk their path. Bring water home.
The 5K route is along the Main Trail at Griffith Park - 4800 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027
The course is flat, scenic and shaded, covering the perimeter of the golf course.
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Walk for Water 5k
