Crop Walk, October 10, 2006
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CROP Walk of Church World Service
NEW YORK / ELKHART, IN - Humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) announced the start of its fall 2006 season of CROP Hunger Walks, community fund-raising events that bring together people of all faiths to raise money for international relief and development, as well as local hunger-fighting. CROP is an acronym for Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty.
CROP events were begun almost 60 years ago, with the collection and shipping of grain contributed by Midwest farmers--central to Church World Service's work in helping to feed starving people in devastated post-World War II Europe and Asia. Today CROP Hunger Walks are the only events that raise awareness and funds to address both international and local needs.
In 2005, some 2,000 communities across the country participated in CROP Walks. Over the past 20 years, CROP Hunger Walkers have raised more than $270 million.
Up to twenty-five percent of what each CROP Hunger Walk raises helps stock food pantries that provide emergency assistance to families in need in that local area. The balance is used to help the relief, development, and refugee assistance agency in its efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty around the world.
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