Westchester Walk for World Water

Co-sponsored by Pace University's Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment and the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF), the Walk will raise awareness of the global water crisis.

In solidarity with those who must do so daily, participants will walk one mile through Pace University’s Pleasantville campus with buckets of water on their heads to simulate the search for drinking water. This task is most often given to women and children, in turn continuing cyclical poverty by forcing children to miss school and keeping women from caring for themselves and their families in other ways. Too often their search brings home water that is not even safe to drink.

EVENT AGENDA

9:30 a.m. Registration (Kessel Student Center)

10:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks (Gottesman Room)

• Katie Ginsberg, Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation
• CELF Student Ambassador, Emma Sylves Berry, Sleepy Hollow High School

10:45 a.m. Keynote

• John Cronin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Affairs, Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Pace University

11:15 a.m. Walk Begins (Choate Pond/Shirley Beth's Way)

12:00 p.m. Student Symposium (Gottesman Room)

12:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

1:00 p.m. Adjourn