Tu Puedes
hacer un
mundo differente
CROP Camina
* en espanyol
Ayuda a
CROP
a Parar
El Hambre
CROP Camina
(Un paseo para los hambrientos)
Zion Lutheran Church
1501 W. Liberty
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
18 de octubre, 2009
Matrícula: 1:00 PM
El Paseo Empieza: 2:00
PM
Comida con el Grupo:
Post-Walk Meal – Please join
us!
Más información: Interfaith Council
for Peace and Justice
Telefono: (734) 663-1870
Correo electronico: Grace Kotre


| Each year more than a quarter million CROPWALKERS put their hearts
and "soles" in motion to help stop hunger, one step at a time, in some
2,000 locally-organized CROP WALKS and other community events around the
world.
When you CROPWALK, you're: Supporting long-term development in more
than 80 countries; Assisting in disasters and famines; Helping meet the
special needs of refugees; Supporting local-hunger-fighting efforts across
the U.S.; Getting some exercise, too!
To listen to a recorded update on Church World Service (CWS) emergency
response and programs, call (800) 297-1516 ext. 111, or visit the CWS website(s):
http://cropwalk.org/
Or:
www.churchworld service.org
CROP WALKS in MICHIGAN
cwscrop.org/michigan/ |
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35th Annual
Washtenaw / Ann Arbor
CROP Hunger Walk
CROP Camina *
en espanyol
Ayuda a CROP a Parar El Hambre
Enough for ALL. . .Can you
lend a hand?
35th Annual Washtenaw
/ Ann Arbor
CROP Hunger Walk!
Sunday, October 18th, 2009,
Registration Begins: 1:00PM at
at: Zion Lutheran Church, Ann
Arbor
(1501
W Liberty St) (Get Directions)
The long route is 10 K about 6 Miles.
The short route is 2 K about 1 Mile.
Walk Begins at 2:00 PM
Post-Walk Meal – Following the
Walk!
Sponsor
a Walker or get a Walker Envelope:
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After all 6 Weekend Masses Oct 3+4, &
Oct 10+11, 2009, at the Church Entrance;
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or from the Church Office.
(Sponsors may designate donations to Catholic Relief Services.)
Each Walker and Donor will have the opportunity
to add a handprint to symbolize his /her commitment in Lending a Hand in
overcoming Poverty in America and the World!
Contact: Patti and Charles Yonka (734-461-2964)
or
.
Questions contact: St. Francis Parish Social Ministry Office,
.
Return all walker envelopes by Monday,
November 2, 2009, to the Church Office.
After that date, envelopes must be returned to the local CROP Walk Office
at:
Interfaith
Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ
663-1870),
Christian Memorial Church, 730 Tappan (near
Hill St.), Ann Arbor, MI 48104
For walker registration or to sponsor a walker
in the Washtenaw County CROP WALK Click Here:
ICPJ
- CROP Hunger Walk 2009
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www.churchworldservice.org/CROP/
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Youth Needed to Help:
We would encourage youth to participate in walking too.
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Also, 25% of the funds raised stay right here
in Washtenaw County to feed hungry people, and 75% feeding
the hungry of the world.
The Interfaith Council for Peace
and Justice - coordinated the first Washtenaw County CROP Hunger
walk in 1975. Since that time the walk has raised hundreds of thousands
of dollars to end hunger both locally and abroad.
This year, 2009, is the 35rd Annual Washtenaw/
Ann Arbor CROP Hunger Walk. The
goal of the walk is $60,000 with 600 walkers = $100 per walker.
We are hoping to recruit 45+ groups
to participate and are
encouraging walkers to aim for a goal of $100 in pledges. The
challenge is to match your best year over the last 2 years!
St. Francis of Assisi
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2005: 15 Walkers raised $1040.
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2006: 9 Walkers raised $782.
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2007: 16 Walkers raised $1275.
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2008: 12 Walkers raised $1092.
Local &
International Groups Receiving
Funds in
2009 from the Ann Arbor Walk
Local
Groups Receiving Funds (25% of the funds go to the following local
groups):
Receiving 5% - Community Action
Network
CAN is a neighborhood-based group serving families
in need. CAN provides afternoon meals for the children living at the Green
Baxter Court and Hikone public housing sites. Bryant Elementary School
is the newest site for CAN. They now feed children from public housing
in after-school programs for 3 sites in Washtenaw County. Northside Community
Center grounds has a resident-maintained vegetable garden in partnership
with Project Grow.
Receiving 4%:
4% - The Breakfast Program at St. Andrew’s
The Breakfast Program continues to feed hungry
children and adults their first meal of the day in Ann Arbor, every day
of the year. The program continues to ask no questions of its clients and
continues to see its numbers increasing.
4% - Hope Clinic
More than a clinic for medical and dental needs,
Hope continues to feed the greater Washtenaw County through its Food Bank
and Weekend Dinner Programs. Hope will also be expanding services to a
new location!
4% - Aid in Milan
AID in Milan provides a number of services to
the hungry in Milan. From Meals on Wheels to a Food Pantry - AID provides
at least 2 weeks worth of meals to over 80 families in need. AID in Milan
continues to see clientele changing with people moving out of Ann Arbor
and Saline due to loss of income and housing. Need continues to increase.
Receiving 3%:
3% - Packard Health
New “Food for Health” program will assist families
with health problems by food delivery. Monies provided by CROP will
get this program started!
3% - Interfaith Hospitality Network
/ Alpha House
Alpha House cares for about 40 families per year.
They have a program that provides grocery delivery to clients that have
moved to their own housing. This food delivery services provides
much needed assistance to families trying to get back on their feet again.
Receiving 2%:
Northfield Human Services Food Pantry
Funds will go to purchase needed food items that
can not be obtained elsewhere.
Non-Perishable Canned Goods and
Produce Food Offering
Collected and Donated to:
Avalon Housing - this agency is expanding to
provide food to tenant families and will received the canned good and produce
collected on the day of the walk.
International Efforts (75%
of the funds go to efforts like the following):
Photo:
Matt Hackworth/CWS
Pakistan – After the recent
conflict between Pakistani government forces and Taliban
forces in northwest Pakistan, tens
of thousands of families have returned to their homes. However, thousands
more are still living in refugee camps, since their homes, farms, schools
and health facilities have been destroyed. CWS has distributed food packages,
kitchen sets, plastic mats, mosquito nets and other basics and has provided
mobile health facilities in Mansehra.
Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay
- The 235,000 square-mile Gran Chaco region of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay
is a fragile ecosystem containing the last unexplored wilderness in South
America, and including areas of almost impenetrable thorny forests and
cactus. Overgrazing and logging exploitation have degraded other
parts of the region from prairie and woodland to semi-desert with patches
of unsustainable cropping. Also, 67,000 indigenous people have been
deprived of their economic, social and cultural rights. Church World
Service and its five regional partners are training leaders to reclaim
their land with the support of international law. CWS is also helping
to develop sustainable agriculture.
World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden
- At the World Water Week meeting in Stockholm, Aug 16-22, 2009, Church
World Service stressed the link between climate change and the global water
crisis. "Droughts and floods, which create acute food shortages,
are becoming chronic in the global south, thereby threatening hunger and
deprivation to at least two-thirds of the world's population."
(Rajyashri S. Waghray, CWS director of Education and Advocacy).
Cambodia - Globally, more than
1 billion people worldwide lack clean water, and more than 2.1 million
people -- most of them children -- die annually from waterborne disease.
As part of an agency-wide effort "Water for All", CWS supports community
efforts to obtain and manage water sources and supplies. For example,
CWS Cambodia has provided more than 2,120 bio-sand water filters in 56
villages in the Svay Rieng province.
Photo: Chris Herlinger/CWS
Nicaragua - In the remote Rio
Coco region of Nicaragua, which was devastated by
Hurricane Felix in 2007, CWS partner
Accion Medica Cristiana is supporting 1,749 families working on environmentally
sustainable demonstration farms: growing grains, tubers, vegetables, and
fruit trees, and learning about food storage and bio-gas production.
For more information about the International work of Church World Service,
please visit: www.churchworldservice.org/crop.
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Some Hunger Facts
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More than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more
than 2 billion lack sanitation. 1
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The wealthiest fifth of the world’s people consumes 86% of all goods and
services, while the poorest fifth consumes 1%. 2
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Each day in the developing world, some 27,000 children die from mostly
preventable and treatable causes such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infection
or malaria. 3
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There are more than 13 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. 4
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Fourteen million children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents
to AIDS. Four out of five of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. 5
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Nearly 2.5 billion of the world’s 6.3 billion people lack access to basic
sanitation. One billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Contaminated
water kills 2.2 million people per year. 6
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Out of 100 children born in 2000, 30 will most likely suffer from malnutrition
in the first five years of life, 26 will not be immunized against the basic
childhood diseases, 19 will lack access to safe drinking water and 40 to
adequate sanitation, and 17 will never go to school. 7
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In developing countries, every fourth child lives in abject poverty, in
families with an income of less than $1 per day. 8
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More than 800 million people in the world go hungry. 9
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Virtually every country in the world has the potential of growing sufficient
food on a sustainable basis. 10
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More than 2 million children each year have severe visual problems due
to lack of vitamin A. 11
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Preschool and school-age children who experience severe hunger have higher
levels of chronic illness, anxiety and depression, and behavior problems
than children with no hunger. 12
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In the last 50 years, almost 400 million people worldwide have died from
hunger and poor sanitation – that’s three times the number of people killed
in all wars fought in the 20th century. 13
1 - www.hungernomore.org
2, 6 - www.undp.org
3,5,7,8 - www.unicef.org
4,11,13 - www.bread.org
9,10 - www.fao.org
12 - www.pediatrics.org |
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St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Parish Social
Ministry Office,
2150 Frieze Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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