Walking For Water 2022
EAST COAST – MAY 7 / WEST COAST MAY 22
THE 2022 WALKS ARE OVER!
WE REACHED OUR $100,000 GOAL!!! WHAT A WONDERFUL SET OF EVENTS, AWESOME AUCTION ITEMS AND PLENTY OF INSPIRATION! THANK YOU THANK YOU TO ALL WHO GAVE AND SUPPORTED OUR WONDERFUL TEENS FOR ANOTHER YEAR. WE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF WALKING FOR WATER NEXT YEAR!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM THE GLOBAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION
Another amazing announcement from our Partners at the Global Bridge Foundation. They surprised us last year with a wonderful donation and it seems they are taking it up a level for 2022! We are deeply blessed and speechless for their support and guidance. We hope to continue this friendship for a long time to come! Thank you Global Bridge!
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
PLEASE ENJOY A SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY 20 MILES A GLASS. WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE THIS HEARTFELT DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATING WALKING FOR WATER AND OUR FOUNDER SOBONFU. AFTER BEING FEATURED ON PBS, WE HAVE THE BLESSING OF BEING ABLE TO SHOW IT TO YOU HERE. YOU CAN WATCH IT ANYTIME! ENJOY!!
WALKING FOR WATER INSTAGRAM FEED
Join us at 7PM today on 104.7 FM in Laguna Beach to hear Walking for Water teen activists talk about the club and their mission. Donate at https://kxfm.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/kx-takeover-walking-for-water-teen-action or call 949-715-4859 to help us support this amazing radio station that provides us with the airwaves!
With the new year already upon us we should keep in mind of our gratitude and thankfulness for the resources that we have readily available to us here in the United States. For many, however, this is not the case. Water is seen by some to be magical and a gift of life. Let’s take the time today and every day to be thankful for our basic necessities, that may seem small to us, but are truly the key factors needed in life. By donating to Walking for Water, we are able to supply thousands of people with clean drinking water throughout Africa and India. Remember that Walking for Water is always open for donations at wisdomspring.org
#waterislife💧
Here is the weekly water fact from @indy.keyclub ‘s Water Fact Wednesday! Did you know that a person can live about a month without food, but only a week without water? Water is so powerful, and is life. While you are having a glass of water, millions of people in third-world countries have to walk miles just to obtain a small portion of it. Let us not take this for granted, and let us fight to make sure that every single person in the world doesn’t go a day without drinking clean water.
In the Dagara tradition this year is about authenticity, magic, moving through challenges and changes, joy, transformation,trickster energy and the year to plant and grow. So I am asking myself and you What do you want to grow? How can you nurture yourself and trust
When I was small I took a twig from a weeping willow tree because I loved the tree and my Grandmother(Nanny) told me it would grow. I trusted her and believed. I had no doubts. I put it in the earth and watched it grow. It was my trees it grew with me. It was my place of refuge.
So I as each of us to take time and ask yourself what do you want to grow? I know I want to grow awareness, truth and trust in myself, so that I can more easily see how my unconscious can take me to places that take me away from truth.
I love these teens! We had so much fun. Don’t forget to mark your calendars. March 26 at 12noon in Laguna Beach will be our Walking for Water event. This will be Wisdom Spring’s 20th Anniversary of Walking4water. Please let us know if you want to be a sponsor or give us an auction item and of course we want uou to attend! Our walk on the East Coast is June 3! My happy place is working with these teens and bringing clean water to people who have to walk miles for water.
While I was in Leesburg to meet with my Walking for Water teens. Many of you know it has been difficult to get back into Burkina Faso because of their struggles and the loss of Sobonfu. Needless to say my heart lies in West Africa. We have still helped in Kenya and all over India bringing water and education but unable to get into the area where my heart is called.
While in Leesburg I always go to the local Grocery store (Giant), and get my basic essentials (WATER). While there, I hear an accent (of course to me I always think it is someone from West Africa), but of course most of the time I am only 50% right. I think to myself Susan STOP you are making things up in your head. Well, right at that moment my $20 bill gets stuck and a beautiful woman with the accent comes to help. I can tell she is struggling with her day and I am sure she is struggling even more because of me. Phone ringing me saying ”where are you from”? She doesn’t respond and of course I can’t help myself I ask again. She responded with I can’t wait to move home this place isn’t for me. I want to help my people and bring education and water. We have saved up and are moving back in June. I then ask where are you from? She replies, “West Africa.” I get a full body rush of goose bumps. I can tell she feels it too. I say “I am here to support our youth in loudoun county and laguna beach schools to bring water and education to indigenous villages.” She starts to cry and I do too. I feel this energy move through us both. This happened in early October and since then her, her husband, my board, well drillers have spoken and our plans are to bring water to Togo and education. Everything looks like a go! I will travel in July to see it happen, but first I need to raise the money to do so.
Giving Tuesday is tomorrow and I am asking for you to bring clean water to Togo and education and to support us in bringing it to many locations in India too. We are a 501-c3 and if you have any questions or want our EIN number please reach out to me!
Please donate at https://www.wisdomspring.org/donate/#wisdomspring.org #water #makeadifference #livingyourgifts #walking4water #nonprofit #education #teens
Approximately 67% of the population in Togo, Africa has access to clean water while only 75% can obtain this water within a walking distance of 30 minutes. Not only do the Togolese struggle to find drinking water, but bathroom facilities as well. Because of climate change, water scarcity is affecting countries all over Africa due to disproportionate supplies of rainfall, occurring in both floods and droughts. Help be apart of the fight for clean, accessible water today by joining Walking For Water and donating to wisdomspring.org
#waterislife💧
Thank you! Steve Adams gallery for the first donation of this year. It is our 20th year as a club and it’s going to be a good one. Once again thank you @steveadamgallery for the beautiful piece. This will be auctioned off at our walk be sure to join us. #lagunabreezedistrict wisdomspring.org donation link
READ UP ON ALL THE AMAZING THINGS FROM OUR 2021 EVENT!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Our new collaborators from the Global Bridge Foundation have an amazing announcement for the walk! Absolutely wonderful!
WALKING FOR WATER 2021 – VIDEO EVENT
Like last year we are having a video component to our event – except this year you can watch it whenever you like! Just click play below and see some sharing from our teen groups, a few auction highlights, a little about our projects and a showing of 20 Miles a Glass, the wonderful documentary by Colter Johnson about Walking for Water. It was picked up by PBS! Sit back and ENJOY!
VIDEO FROM TWO NEW WELLS
We have video of two of our newer wells that were placed in Southern India for two villages whose community is part of the untouchable caste. These wonderful communities are vital and we trust these new wells will be with them for a long time.
We are deeply grateful for our ongoing partnership with the Phen-Dey Foundation. Our hope is for many more wells in the future.
MASKS, TSHIRTS AND WONDERFUL TEEN ARTWORK POSTCARDS

WFW TSHIRT
A great way to support the cause and the high school clubs on the East and West Coasts. Follow the link to order your shirt special!

WFW MONK BAG
These specially made bags are a great way to support Walking for Water and Wisdom Spring, while also having a sturdy bag for all your goods! Buy one today!