Date: 4/25/2010
Location: Spokane, WA

Registration: 12:00 p.m., Walk: 1:30 p.m.
Centennial Trail at Martin Centre at Gonzaga University

   

So far we have raised $295.00 online. With your help more is possible!

At 1:30 pm on April 25th, 2010, more than 300 adults, youth, and children will march to the skirling music of the Angus Scott Bagpipe Band as they step out for the annual Spokane CROP Hunger Walk.  Many of them will be wearing distinctive t-shirts provided by Walk sponsors to those who raised $100.00 or more to combat hunger.

During the past 32 years, members of Spokane’s faith communities joining with Church World Service as “Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty” have raised more that $630,000 to fight hunger.  Church World Service works through local agencies here and wherever its funds and emergency supplies are needed – recently in Haiti.  One quarter of the funds we raised (almost $157,000) has come back to local agencies:  2nd Harvest Food Bank, Spokane Valley Meals on Wheels, Mid-City Concerns, and Interfaith Hospitality of Spokane.

The genius of CROP Hunger Walks is three-fold, it is community-based, interfaith, and grassroots.  People gather at the community level to walk and the funds raised are put to work by local agencies on the ground in various countries and in the US.

Hungry people in developing countries typically walk as much as six miles a day to get food, water, and fuel, and to take their goods to market.  Our walk shows our solidarity with their struggle for existence.  At the heart of our Walk is the motto which links walkers and recipients around the world:   “We walk because they walk.”

The lawn on the south side of Gonzaga’s Martin Centre is the gathering place for this year’s Sunday afternoon walk.  Registration and entertainment begin at noon, preparing for the 1:30 walk. Walkers will use the Centennial Trail to the west for a 2-mile trek to and from the Clock Tower in Riverfront Park or to the east to Greene Street  and back for a 10K conditioning-for-Bloomsday run.

Further information about the Walk is available online at www.ChurchWorldService.org or by phone (509) 891-1045 or email (sbarney39@gmail.com) to Spokane CROP Hunger Walk coordinator, Sylvia Barney.

CROP Hunger Walks help children and families worldwide -- and right here in the U.S. -- to have food for today, while building for a better tomorrow. Each year some two million CROP Walkers, volunteers, and sponsors put their hearts and soles in motion, raising over $16 million per year to help end hunger and poverty around the world -- and in their own communities. And you are part of it!

Note: Online donations for this year's Walk will be accepted through July 31.