Hundreds of people are expected to gather at Avondale Park in Birmingham on Saturday, May 5th to workout for a great cause.

Birmingham based Neverthirst and Iron Tribe Fitness will partner to host the 9th annual Workout for Water, their largest fundraising campaign of the year. This year’s goal is to raise $450,000 to serve 18,000 people with clean water projects in Chad, Uganda, India, Nepal, Cambodia and Myanmar.

Workout for Water events will take place at Iron Tribe Fitness in seven states.

The campaign culminates with a group workout.  In Birmingham, the event will take place Saturday, May 5th at 9 a.m. in Avondale Park.  All are invited, but it’s not necessary to participate in the workout to make a difference.  Anyone can give.  Generous partners of Neverthirst have provided matching funds up to $225,000 through the day of the event.  Every dollar raised will be matched.  Mark Whitehead, the director of Neverthirst says their work would not be possible without the generous support of people in Birmingham.

Neverthirst was founded in 2008 in Birmingham and has provided access to clean water to more than 513,000 people in seven countries.  More than 663 million people around the world don’t have access to clean drinking water.It’s estimated more than 800 children under the age of five die every day from lack of access to clean water according to UNICEF.

Neverthirst was selected as a 4 Star Charity (the highest rating) by Charity Navigator. For more information or to support the work Neverthirst is doing go to neverthirstwater.org. To learn more about Workout for Water go to workoutforwater.com.

(Neverthirst news release)