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The all-female staff at UWAPublishing are taking small steps toward helping women in developing countries to lift themselves out of poverty.

In solidarity with the women and girls around the world who walk many hours every day to collect water, food and firewood, the staff walked 10,000 steps a day for a week last month to raise money for CARE Australia's Walk In Her Shoes campaign.

"Some of these women walk 95,000 steps a day, which doesn't leave any time for school or earning a living," said Kiri Falls, sales, rights and marketing co-ordinator at UWAP. "The campaign raises money to establish community gardens and clean water close to homes to help women and girls spend more time in schools or earning an income," she said.

"We're lucky working at the UWA Claremont campus, where we have a big oval, we're very close to the river and there are lovely tree-lined streets, so lots of good places to walk."

While they walked they wore their Centenary T-shirts, which are being sold through the UWAP website.

There are three gold and/or white designs on royal blue cotton T-shirts , featuring the peacocks, Winthrop Hall's rose window, and the number 100. The shirts are $25 each with three women's sizes and four men's sizes.

If you would like to donate please go to CARE Australia through the UWAP team .

Published in UWA News , April 2013