The Concord Area Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty (CROP) Hunger Walk will be held on Oct. 10 at 1 p.m. Please arrive at Wesley Methodist Church, 79 Clinton St., at 12:30 p.m. to register.
Organized locally, the CROP Hunger Walk has set a goal to raise $50,000 to help stop hunger and poverty here in our community and around the world, through self-help initiatives. A portion of the money raised here will go to local food pantries. Last year, we raised more than $24,000. We are looking to double this amount!
This year West Congregational Church and some 2,000 cities and towns nationwide are joining together in interfaith community CROP Hunger Walks around the theme “We walk because they walk.” Many of the CROP Walkers will be wearing “We walk because they walk” T-shirts, proclaiming their solidarity with the millions of neighbors around the world who have to walk to live as well as with the millions served by local food pantries, food banks and meal sites here in America. These local ministries share in the funds raised by CROP hunger walks.
Central America is one part of the world where these walks are making a big difference. In Guatemala, for example, indigenous families – especially the women – are learning how to grow more and better foods for their families using appropriate technology such as greenhouses and catchment irrigation, alongside creative solutions of their own design, like used tires as mini-garden planters. They are also learning how to gain social and economic empowerment and how to market their extra harvest.
This year, there is a much larger demand for food for people in our country, including Concord. The amount of folks coming to our pantry this year is double of the numbers from last year at this same time.
You may walk the walk and collect sponsors or give a monetary donation.
For more information, contact Brenda Cochrane at 225-2429.
