For Immediate Release
New York City CROP HUNGER WALK STEPS OFF April 30 Walk helps fight hunger here and abroad
NEW YORK CITY, April 27-- On Sunday, April 30 at 2 PM hundreds of people will step off on a two-mile walk to help feed hungry people. The event, the New York City CROP HUNGER WALK is an ecumenical effort organized by churches of all denominations throughout the city.
The participants will walk down Fifth Avenue, starting from the Church of Heavenly Rest at 90th St. and ending at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Street at 55th St.
The New York City CROP HUNGER WALK is part of a nationwide network of similar hunger fighting walks that take place on different Saturdays and Sundays in various parts of the country throughout the year.
These symbolic walks are a way for churches, families, and individuals to show solidarity with poor people in our communities and around the world by raising money to fight poverty and hunger. Hundreds of millions of women, children, and men walk miles and miles every day just to get their basic necessities, like water, food, firewood, and medical care. We walk because they walk
According to a 2003 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture 11.2 percent of American households, at some time during the year did not have access, to "enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members."
Some of those people are able to get help from local soup kitchens or food pantries like the ones that will share in the receipts from the April 30 New York City CROP HUNGER WALK.
The New York City pantries that will receive a share of the funds from this year's CROP HUNGER WALK include Advent Lutheran Food Programs, Broadway Community Food Pantry, Immanuel Lutheran meals to the Elderly, St. Ignatius Soup Kitchen/Food Pantry, Park Avenue Community Lunch Program, St. Mary's Soup Kitchen, St. Peter's Breakfast Program, The Dwelling Place, Trinity Creative Learning Center, West Side Campaign Against Hunger, and Central Presbyterian Summer Meal Program.
Overseas programs that receive a share of the CROP HUNGER WALK funds include poverty and hunger fighting projects of New York City-based global humanitarian agency Church World Service, the sponsor of the walks.
Church World Service is the relief, development, and refugee assistance agency supported by 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations in the United States. The agency is active in the United States and 80 countries around the world.
For more information about the New York City CROP HUNGER WALK call (888) 297-2767 or visit www.cropwalk.org.
Contacts: Mel Lehman, (212) 865-6115, ML9612921@aol.com