CROP WALK

CROP WALK

WHAT DOES C.R.O.P. MEAN?

 

C.R.O.P. stands for Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty.

 

What are CROP Hunger Walks?

 

CROP Hunger Walks are neighbors and friends from different faiths, cultures, ages and abilities, walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world. Together we raise money for local, national and international relief and development efforts.

 

           What is the point of walking in a CROP Walk?

 

Hungry people in underdeveloped countries walk as much as six miles a day to get food, water, and fuel, and to take their products to market.  We walk to remember and understand their struggle for existence.  “We walk because they walk.”

 

           What makes CROP Hunger Walks so special to us?

 

They are community-based and Inter-faith.  Each group of walkers is connected to the next through the common bond of Church World Service. 

 

Did You know that:

 

  • this is the 27th year of the Region One crop walk?
  • in that time, we have raised over $500,000 for hunger relief?
  • approximately 20% of the money raised goes directly to local agencies, such as the food banks?
  • $72 can provide emergency food supplies for a family of five for a month?
  • $120 can send three women to attend a literacy class for a year?
  • $200 can provide a poor family with a water buffalo to increase their food production and help get their produce to market?
  • $350 can provide vocational training for the eldest child in a parent-less family of AIDS orphans so they can support their siblings and themselves?

 

What can You do?

 

Join me, young and old: in giving and/or getting pledges of support, baking cookies for the walkers, being available to sit at stations along the way, talking your friends and families to walk the long walk, or try walking around the high school oval pushing a less-abled friend in a wheelchair, sending out emails to friends near and far to draw attention to our efforts, giving rides, cheering us on, talking it up....there are so many ways each of us can help!

 

Let's put North Canaan Congregational Church back in the middle of the fight against hunger and poverty on Sunday, September 26th!  Will you be there with me?

  Gert Anderson        Youth For Christ    (860) 824-7022         (860) 671-0663