Cabri School's 'We Day' group was raising money and awareness outdoors over the weekend.

A group of students and teachers from the school raised $2,000 for fresh water wells to be built in Ecuador.

The "Walk for Water" was a 26.7 km walk between Abbey and Cabri to show the daily distance some Ecuadorian women have to walk to access fresh water.

Jade Telke, an Educational Assistant at Cabri School and one of the walk coordinators, shares more on the women they were raising money for.

"So we walked that far to show awareness for how far these young women and children have to walk - that's their jobs. Some of these young women aren't getting to go to school; they have to walk and get water for their family," she said. " We raised the money to send down to Ecuador so that they can build wells for their families so the girls can now go to school and the women can stay home and look after their kids instead of making that daily walk to go get water."

Near 30-degree temperatures pushed the students and other participants physically, but it provided an eye-opening experience for the individuals in attendance to better understand the issue.

"Some of the women have to carry babies on their backs, and for half of the trip they would have to carry those full water jugs on their heads as well. Meanwhile we were all ready to call it quits halfway - we didn't even have to go the rest of the way carrying water," Telke said. "You think you can just walk forever, but you really can't. We were halfway through and our feet were burning and it was kind of an out-of-body experience; you feel like you don't even remember the last half because you just wanted to make sure you made it. It was really interesting to see how hard it really was."

Each well costs $250 to build and make operational. With the $2000 raised, eight families in Ecuador will soon be getting clean, accessible drinking water.