I decided to condense my experience of the walking for water challenge over the space of the weekend. Personally, I think I'll have more time to do things over the weekend, but factoring social time and other errands quickly eats it up.
I am feeling quite fatigued, mentally and physically by the challenge this weekend. I am slipping up more in things like accidentally running the taps, then having to estimate my water usage on averages I find online. I am constantly thirsty and look out in envy as many enjoy their water without knowing about these rules and goals I've set out for the week. I'm starting to wonder how I will be able to cope after this challenge being that I have now officially completed 7 days.
I have summarized some of the experiences within the span of a week this challenge has taught me. I walked 98.27kms (61.06 miles) this week and averaged 7.5L/day.
Beyond the challenge itself, I began to recognize on a deeper level the struggles many others face in our local or international communities that are unfair. A lack of appreciation of what I have or ignorance on some issues is one element of it, but more so for me the helplessness of how to start making change.
Awareness is always key and can't simply happen through a one-time event. Living through something that is challenging, unfair and likely non-existent in developed countries can create individual experiences that mean different things and trigger unique feelings to you. Ultimately, the inequality question challenges are set to change behaviours and facilitate change on a greater scale, so we can see inequalities decrease in our lifetimes.
As one of the first to undertake this challenge, I highly encourage you to register an inequality challenge with us to test yourself and find out how to you can change yourself to ensure we live in a better world. Register your interest at: http://inequalityquestion.com/challenge/ to undertake a challenge in your community.Please keep afloat on the many interesting challenges still to come this month through following their blogs (http://inequalityquestion.com/stories/).
Money is also instrumental in making sure this is done. This month we set our sites on the street children in Uganda who need your support. Any size donation will help! http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/InequalityQuestion
This is extraordinary and unprecedented, I agree with you that there is a lot more we can do to change the world to a better place for everyone, this idea is pretty much of a milestone reached in quest for a better life especially among the disadvantaged children.
ReplyDeleteKudos Jillian,
God bless