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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 

St. Francis HOME
Social Ministry

 
 
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/
St. Francis HOME
Social Ministry
35th Annual    Washtenaw / Ann Arbor 
CROP Hunger Walk
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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:

  • After all 6 Weekend Masses Oct 3+4,  & Oct 10+11, 2009, at  the Church Entrance; 
  • 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/

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

  • 2005: 15 Walkers raised $1040.
  • 2006:  9 Walkers raised $782.
  • 2007:  16 Walkers raised $1275.
  • 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.

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    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. 

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  • 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). 

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  • 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
    • More than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than 2 billion lack sanitation. 1
    • The wealthiest fifth of the world’s people consumes 86% of all goods and services, while the poorest fifth consumes 1%. 2
    • 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
    • There are more than 13 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. 4
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • In developing countries, every fourth child lives in abject poverty, in families with an income of less than $1 per day. 8
    • More than 800 million people in the world go hungry. 9
    • Virtually every country in the world has the potential of growing sufficient food on a sustainable basis. 10
    • More than 2 million children each year have severe visual problems due to lack of vitamin A. 11
    • 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
    • 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
    Sources:
    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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