We work with local partners, who understand local issues, and provide them with the skills and support to help communities set up and manage practical and sustainable projects that meet their real needs.
We also work locally and internationally to change policy and practice to ensure that water, hygiene and sanitation's vital role in reducing poverty is recognised.
WaterAid works with individuals and families in their communities, paying special attention to the most vulnerable people, to help them set up, operate and maintain their own projects so that they last long into the future.
Many women and children in the world's poorest countries spend hours each day walking miles to collect water. This water is usually dirty and unsafe to drink, but they have no alternative. Carrying heavy water containers is an exhausting task, which takes up valuable time and energy, preventing women from doing other work and stopping children from going to school. 
This year the money raised from the Ricky Road Run will go to supporting WaterAid's work in Tanzania. WaterAid Tanzania urgently needs help to raise £687,000 to reach vulnerable communities this year in 11 rural areas in the regions of Tabora, Singida, Dodoma and Manyara in the Temeke district of De es Salaam. The money raised from the 2010 Ricky Road Run will help to deliver vital, life saving water services to Tanzania's poorest and most vulnerable people. 
