It’s Friday! It’s also crunch time. We are getting really close to A Walk for Water! The AI team is starting to feel the pressure. We have a lot of important deadlines and targets to meet, and at only $555 raised so far with a mere 22 days left, we now have to focus very hard on fundraising. We also only have less than 30 people registered--5 of these being part of the event AI volunteer team!

Yes, 22 days left until A Walk For Water. 
That’s less than a month left until the walk.......  

Read the full update here!
- Jamie, Marketing and Promotions Coordinator

It’s Friday again, supporters! I’m sure you are all dreaming of your weekend plans as you sip your morning coffee. I know weekends are for relaxing, but I wanted to take a second opportunity in this week’s update to remind you that National Volunteer Week is still under way until April 12th! Don't forget to engage with us and other volunteers about A Walk for Water on Twitter or Facebook!

Some of you have already told us about how awesome you are in your support of us. I'd like to take a moment to give a shout out to Karen and Anna Cronin, who showcased Amman Imman at the National Youth Leadership Conference and talked about A Walk For Water. Thank you so much you two!

If you have recently helped spread awareness, talked about AI, or any other form of support we not only want to share it to the world, we love reading about it! It makes us smile, especially on Mondays. Send us an email!

Only 29 days left until AWFW!

Some of you might think that's still a lot, but it goes by very quickly. This week we have been working on the design of the passports we are handing out for the walk. We have been finalizing the pages we will put in the booklet, as well as started to work on the graphical design. All I am allowed to say is that it is going to look great, and be so much fun for the children (and adults too, why not?).

Also, this week in particular was exciting because I had the opportunity to read some of the field updates from past programs and current, as well as read some technical details about the boreholes we build to give access to clean drinking water to the Azawak. I can’t wait to soon start sharing these things with you all!

Until next week, enjoy your weekend!

- Jamie, Marketing and Promotions Coordinator

Week of March 27 - April 3rd

Hello supporters of the Azawak! Happy Friday! Today we are starting what will be our weekly updates on A Walk for Water 2014. Each Friday we will post an update on what we as a team have been doing to make this AWFW not only a huge success as a charity, but as a community as well! We want everyone in attendance to have a ton of fun, and learn a lot to boot.

Some of you may already know, but starting last year AWFW became something that was done through the hard work of an AI volunteer team: Rebecca Reynolds (our Event Coordinator), Andre Da Silva (our Fundraising Coordinator), Debra Kahn (our Outreach and Registration Coordinator and person-who-does-all-things), Kim Hagg (our Logistics Coordinator), Jamie Ferrugiaro (our Marketing and Promotion Coordinator), and Stephen Barron (our Accounting and Event Day Registration Coordinator).

Although we have been working on the event since January, last week for us was a big one! Even though this is our second year working as a team together for AWFW, we have had a lot of challenges. We opted to try a different fundraising platform for this event--Fundly. Although there are many new, exciting features that Fundly has provided for us we have found a lot of challenges as well, and a majority of last week was spent dealing with them. Debbie in particular took up the reins to get these issues solved! We have to thank everyone for the their awesome patience as we work out the kinks.

We also went over some of the major decisions we have to make at this point in our time frame : T-Shirt designs, Passport design, tents we need to procure for the event, starting a marketing strategy, having volunteers hang up posters, and more! Phew.That was a lot.

Speaking of, we can’t take a break yet! There is still a lot more to do before we get to see all the people who have already generously registered to participate in this event! Until next week, enjoy your weekend!
-- Jamie Ferrugiaro, Marketing and Promotions