CROP Hunger Walks provide solutions
It’s CROP Hunger Walk season! Get involved with your
local CROP Hunger Walk: www.crophungerwalk.org
Malnutrition leads to nearly half of all childhood deaths before age 5. During a child’s first 1,000 days, proper nutrition is vital. Without it, the risk is high for life-long health issues.
So, what’s the solution? A community garden? Training on feeding infants healthy food? The truth is, no single effort will eradicate hunger. In some areas, Church World Service uses CROP funds toward agricultural solutions to help families grow healthier food. Yet in reality most of the world’s poor buy their food, which prompts people of faith to look deeper at the root causes of hunger. Sometimes a clean water source will help. Other times discrimination blocks access to employment, meaning a small business grant or loan in the short term can help a whole family eat for years.
CROP Hunger Walk funds provide all these solutions and more for people struggling in poverty. CROP Hunger Walk funds also enable local food pantries and food banks to be with those in need.
CROP Hunger Walks are community-based events that bring people together to raise funds and find solutions! Please be a part of one this fall.
To get info, register, or raise funds for your local CROP Hunger Walk please visit www.crophungerwalk.org or call the Illinois regional office of CWS at (630) 200-4572.
Malnutrition leads to nearly half of all childhood deaths before age 5. During a child’s first 1,000 days, proper nutrition is vital. Without it, the risk is high for life-long health issues.
So, what’s the solution? A community garden? Training on feeding infants healthy food? The truth is, no single effort will eradicate hunger. In some areas, Church World Service uses CROP funds toward agricultural solutions to help families grow healthier food. Yet in reality most of the world’s poor buy their food, which prompts people of faith to look deeper at the root causes of hunger. Sometimes a clean water source will help. Other times discrimination blocks access to employment, meaning a small business grant or loan in the short term can help a whole family eat for years.
CROP Hunger Walk funds provide all these solutions and more for people struggling in poverty. CROP Hunger Walk funds also enable local food pantries and food banks to be with those in need.
CROP Hunger Walks are community-based events that bring people together to raise funds and find solutions! Please be a part of one this fall.
To get info, register, or raise funds for your local CROP Hunger Walk please visit www.crophungerwalk.org or call the Illinois regional office of CWS at (630) 200-4572.
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