Schenectady
CROP Walk for Hunger.
We walk because they walk. Millions of people around the world need to walk miles each day to get their food and water. In memory of that Trinity joins the Schenectady crop walk for hunger. Members of the church walk to raise funds to help battle food shortages. Trinity has been active each year with this important cause, even via a virtual walk due to Covid in 2020.
May 1, 2022 CROP Walk
After an aborted 2021 event, (cold, hard rain and wind!), we were happy to have a beautiful day to meet by Jumpin’ Jacks and walk our 5k on a loop through Scotia. We had 22 people, (and 2 dogs), along with 12 donor families participating. The total raised for hunger causes was $2344.70!
2022 CROP Walkers
History
CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk events held in cities and towns across the United States raising funds to support the global mission of Church World Service, a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster. Twenty five percent of the funds raised are returned to the host community to support local hunger-fighting efforts.
The Crop Project was organized in 1947 when farmers were asked to donate food and seed crops to our hungry neighbors in post-World War II Europe and Asia, a program that soon became known as the Christian Rural Overseas Program - CROP. In 1969 in Bismarck, North Dakota, and in 1970 in York, Pennsylvania, the first walk events were organized to raise funds to support CROP. Since then, CROP Hunger Walk events have been held in hundreds of communities large and small raising millions of dollars to eradicate hunger and poverty.
