Supporters of local charity Wilmslow Wells for Africa made a splash at the town's Artisan Market to raise interest in the work they are doing to bring clean water to isolated rural communities in Africa.
Members of local churches, who have made the charity their Harvest Appeal target for 2015, carried buckets of water from Wilmslow Methodist Church on Water Lane to the centre of the market on Alderley Road for an hour on Saturday, 17th October.
They filled a bath tub with the water they had carried as a demonstration of what hard work it is when you have to carry water and don't have it on tap.
Wilmslow Wells trustee and volunteer Dr David Tonks said: 'People stopped us to ask us what we were doing. That gave us a chance to tell them about the work of Wilmslow Wells for Africa and what a difference it makes to people's lives to have clean water, where they need it.'
Fellow trustee and Wilmslow Methodist Church member Jenny Gibbs added: 'It's good that we got some men volunteering to carry buckets. In Africa, it's almost always the women and girls who get landed with this heavy, time consuming job twice a day. That's why giving a family a water tank or sinking a village well is such a liberating thing for the female members of the community.'
Charity volunteers also gave out information about their fundraising work, which goes back 33 years and reached its first £1 million raised earlier this year.
For further information visit the Wilmslow Wells for Africa website.
Photos: Barbara Welton and Joy Anderson. Dave Tonks, Ian Kennedy, Andrew Backhouse, Ronnie Dykstra. Christine Kennedy (carrying water).
