Time to register for 2019 CROP Walk
Manchester’s 2019 CROP Walk is coming up Sunday October 6, from 1-3 pm, with the walk through Manchester starting at 1:30 pm. Participants should meet at the Manchester United Methodist Church, located at 501 Ann Arbor Street around 1 pm. Walk one mile or three miles around the community!
To participate, find out if your church or organization has a CROP Walk team and join it; call Marlene Uphaus at (734) 428-8403; or register at www.crophungerwalk.org/manchestermi. You can also choose to donate money to support a local team instead of registering to walk yourself.
CROP Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by local congregations and groups to raise funds to reduce hunger at home and around the world. The Manchester CROP Walk has been held every year since 1995. Last year there were 40 walkers here in Manchester and raising $3,000.
Each local CROP Hunger Walk can choose to return up to 25% of the funds it raises to hunger-fighting programs in its own community. Since the start of the program in Manchester, the local contribution has been divided among charities which provided important local activities, including the Community Resource Center, Manchester Family Service, and the Manchester Area Senior Citizens for its weekly meal program.
CROP stands for Christian Rural Overseas Program, which was started as an agency for Christian World Services in 1946 to help starving countries in Europe after WWII. The walks started in 1969 and were the original fund-raising effort. For nearly half a century, CROP Hunger Walks have ensured that more people worldwide have access to nutritious, sustainable food sources. From combating droughts in Nicaragua to providing agricultural training in Indonesia, to stocking shelves in hundreds of food pantries across the United States, CROP Hunger Walks help end hunger by raising funds to support local food programs and the international anti-hunger work of Church World Service.
Questions? Call Marlene Uphaus at (734) 428-8403.
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