CROP Walk Raises Money To Fight Hunger Locally & Worldwide
September 1, 2020 at 11:41 p.m.
By Jackie [email protected]
CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk events held in cities and towns across the United States. It raises funds to support Church World Service, a faith-based organization that helps communities around the world through sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster, according to the CROP Hunger Walk website.
Kosciusko CROP Walk Chairman Ken Locke said the county’s records go back to 1984 of having the walks. However, there were walks before then.
In the past, the county walk has had 80 to 100 walkers. Locke said he believes Kosciusko got started with the walks because there are certain religious denominations within the county that had a relationship with Church World Service.
The walk is sponsored by Church World Services and locally sponsored by the Greater Warsaw Ministerial Association, Locke said.
This year, people will still collect pledges for the 5K walk, but they will do their own walk, said Locke. The route will be up to the person. “We’re trying to cut down on having a large group together.”
There is no registration fee and people can register online at www.crophungerwalk.org/warsawin/.
The walk helps bring awareness to hunger around the world.
There are places that are really hurting for food, Locke said. There are things such as famine that people have been hearing about for years, but “there’s still hunger that exists.”
“There’s constant needs around the world,” Locke said, noting the need to continue raising awareness of hunger.
For the money raised from pledges and donations, 75% will go toward Church World Services and the remaining 25% will stay locally for GWMA to support the Thanksgiving baskets given out to families by St. Anne's Church, Locke said. The Thanksgiving baskets helped approximately 250 Kosciusko County families last year, which were identified by the school systems. There are three or four other churches the help with the baskets, as well.
Donations can be sent to the Greater Warsaw Ministerial Association, P.O. Box 1797, Warsaw, IN?46581. The memo line should have CROP Walk.
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CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk events held in cities and towns across the United States. It raises funds to support Church World Service, a faith-based organization that helps communities around the world through sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster, according to the CROP Hunger Walk website.
Kosciusko CROP Walk Chairman Ken Locke said the county’s records go back to 1984 of having the walks. However, there were walks before then.
In the past, the county walk has had 80 to 100 walkers. Locke said he believes Kosciusko got started with the walks because there are certain religious denominations within the county that had a relationship with Church World Service.
The walk is sponsored by Church World Services and locally sponsored by the Greater Warsaw Ministerial Association, Locke said.
This year, people will still collect pledges for the 5K walk, but they will do their own walk, said Locke. The route will be up to the person. “We’re trying to cut down on having a large group together.”
There is no registration fee and people can register online at www.crophungerwalk.org/warsawin/.
The walk helps bring awareness to hunger around the world.
There are places that are really hurting for food, Locke said. There are things such as famine that people have been hearing about for years, but “there’s still hunger that exists.”
“There’s constant needs around the world,” Locke said, noting the need to continue raising awareness of hunger.
For the money raised from pledges and donations, 75% will go toward Church World Services and the remaining 25% will stay locally for GWMA to support the Thanksgiving baskets given out to families by St. Anne's Church, Locke said. The Thanksgiving baskets helped approximately 250 Kosciusko County families last year, which were identified by the school systems. There are three or four other churches the help with the baskets, as well.
Donations can be sent to the Greater Warsaw Ministerial Association, P.O. Box 1797, Warsaw, IN?46581. The memo line should have CROP Walk.
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