Poet in Transit...

Hello All

I have within the last 14 months walked from the Netherlands to Santiago de Compostella (2450km), from Madrid to Sahagun (320km), and from Porto to Santiago de Compostella (240km)... A grand total of 3010km on behalf of Charity Water and those that they support worldwide.

It has been both an illumination and inspiration, not only for myself, but those whom I touch daily, as we speak and travel about water issues facing us as a planet. I can not tell you what a pleasure it is to do this on Charity Water´s behalf, and every kilometer has been worth the struggle, as the inordinate support and benevolent spirit of all those I have met shines forth, like a great beacon of love unto the world.

I carry 20kgs, on average 20km per day (a little more sometimes if the feet are up to it) and for the most part in all weathers and conditions. I do this as an act of solidarity with those who live in water sparse regions who carry on average the same load each day, just for their personal and familial water requirements.

There has not been a single occasion in all those months and all those kilometers where I have been refused water when I have asked for it, and I have asked for it a LOT. Never has it been refused. For I think there is something quite instinctual within each of us that recognizes that without water, nothing is possible, and that ´WATER IS LIFE´.

I hope that you will join with me and give generously to this wonderful charity, who are doing such incredible work, and changing the lives of countless communities and human beings by making fresh, potable, water available in places where only water starvation, and disease born from the lack of it, existed.

Please feel free to donate to Charity Water... who are doing incredible work         across the planet to bring the most basic requirement of life to millions of people who are still without this most obvious of human necessities.

Thank you

Richard Michael Parker