The 2006 Crop Walk in New York Mills will be held Oct. 4 at St. Peter's Church, with registration starting at 5 p.m.
Prizes will be awarded and organizers set a goal to have everyone in the walk raise $100. For more information or to register for this year's Crop Walk contact Jan Parta at 346-7693.
Last year in NY Mills, the Crop Walk raised $6,121.31 with the NY Mills Area Food Shelf receiving $1,530. The Boy Scouts was the group last year that raised the most money, bringing in $700.
Crop Walks are "Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty" - neighbors walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world. Together we raise awareness and funds for international relief and development, as well as local hunger fighting.
Crop Walk is a community based fundraising event, raising money for local hunger-fighting agencies as well as the international relief and development efforts of Church World Service.
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Facts for Action
- 840 million people are undernourished worldwide - about equal to the population of the Western Hemisphere.
- 1.2 billion people in developing countries live on $1 a day or less
- 70 percent of those who suffer from hunger are women and girls.
- 6 million children under age 5 die each year as a result of hunger.
- More than 33 million U.S. citizens (1 in 10 households) cannot afford to meet their basic food needs. If they all stood in a line at a food pantry in New York, the line would stretch to Los Angeles and back. Twice.
- One in five U.S. children is born into poverty.
