Pace students walk for water - Westfair Communications

Pace students carried buckets of water on their heads during the mile-long walk.

Pace University in Pleasantville hosted the Westchester Walk for World Water in partnership with the Children”™s Environmental Literacy Foundation student ambassadors. Participating were more than 100 Pace students, staff, faculty, community members and students from local high schools, including Bedford, Eastchester, Irvington, Kent Place, Scarsdale, Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown and The Hackley School.

Participants walked one mile with large buckets of water on their heads to demonstrate the trek that many women around the world make each day to collect water.

Michelle D. Land, director of programming at Pace”™s Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, said, “Photos or stories of women and children throughout the developing world traveling miles for water, often of terrible quality, is not enough. Our water walk helps Pace students briefly experience what it is like to have to do this every day.”