Crop Walk

CROP Hunger Walk

What is a CROP Hunger Walk?

Neighbors walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world. Together we raise awareness funds for international relief and development, as well as local hunger-fighting.

This year IOCP will receive 6.25 of the NW Suburbs total earnings to help in the local community.

In addition to raising funds, this year’s walkers and congregations are encouraged to bring canned goods to the walk. PCCC has been asked to donate soup for IOCP

The NW Suburbs walk will be held on October 11. If you would like to sponsor a walker, checks made out to CWS/CROP may be given to the walker of your choice. To make an online donation, follow the link on the PCCC website (www.plymouthcreek.org).


Children at Risk
• In developing countries nearly 16 million children die every year from preventable and treatable causes. Sixty percent of these deaths are from hunger and malnutrition.
• The World Health Organization estimates that there are 178 million children who are malnourished across the globe.
• A child born in a developing country is over 13 times more likely to die within the first five years of life than a child born in an industrialized country.
• Ninety percent of the world’s undernourished children live in just 36 countries. Intensified nutrition action in these nations can still lead to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of halving severe hunger.

Hunger: Facts and Faces
Hunger Progress and Distress
• In September 2000, 189 countries, including the United States, endorsed the Millennium Development Goals to cut in half the percentage of people living in extreme poverty and substantially improve health and education in impoverished countries by 2015.
• In 19 developing countries, the number of hungry has dropped by 80 million over ten years.
• However, higher food prices are likely to push 100 million deeper into poverty.
• Over 923 million people around the world remain hungry – more than the population of the western hemisphere.
• Most of these people are not victims of famine, but suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition that stunts growth and saps energy and potential.
• Every day, more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes – about one child every five seconds.
• 1.4 billion people live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1.25 a day.

What is poverty? To come home and see your children go hungry and not have anything to give them.
Brazil

CWS – Walking With the World for Sixty Years!
• Founded in 1946, Church World Service stands with impoverished peoples around the world as they envision and fashion a better future.
• Last year CROP Hunger Walks and events raised over $17 million to support the hunger-fighting work of Church World Service around the block and around the world.
• With those resources, wells, seeds, tools, and literacy training were provided to African farmers — who are mostly women.
• Emergency medical supplies for flood victims in the United States, health services and safe water for the displaced in Darfur, and vocational training for indigenous communities in Latin America – these are only a few of the ways you are making a difference through your CROP Hunger Walk. Thank you!

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
Buzz Aldren

The CROP Hunger Walk is a wonderful gathering of people coming from different faiths to work for a common cause – fighting hunger.
Susan Davis, coordinator, Akron CROP Hunger Walk

Sources: Bread for the World; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); U.N. Development Program; World Health Organization