A couple of reasons really.  I feel extremely privileged to have served with the Gurkhas for 5 years during my time in the military.  I speak their language and spent some time designing gravity feed water systems in the mountains of Nepal.  The projects were funded through the Candians and the Gurkha Welfare Trust.  My job was to design the pipeworks, catchment systems and tap points, write a report, send it off and with luck the materials would turn up and the villagers could get one step closer to what we would class as normal.  It was incredibly hard to watch young children walk for literally hours and hours every day just to get enough water to be able to cook, drink and wash.  To be able to do more in that country as well as others is my main reason for choosing to run for WaterAid.  

Also over the years I have supported lots of charities and I have raised thousands of Pounds for organisations such as the RNLI, Project Aware and several local Portsmouth charities.  However, this event is different, this is running across a desert.  The only logical choice was Water Aid.