DeKALB – Tanzania Development Support, a nonprofit organization based in DeKalb, is sponsoring Walk With Water fundraising events to help local residents empathize with the hardships faced by people in countries where water is in short supply.

Water is so plentiful in the United States that little thought is given to how critically important it is to life. In other countries the scarcity of water forces inhabitants to spend an entire day, every day, walking miles to locate water. This task is typically assigned to children, most often girls, who walk for water instead of going to school.