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.
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2009: 7 walkers raised $1115.
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):
SOS Community Crisis Center
operates
an Emergency Food Pantry every Tuesday and Wednesday. 41% of those receiving
emergency food assistance belong to families with children. 50% of those
receiving emergency food assistance are children.
L.O.V.E. Thy Neighbor -
First United Methodist Church – The LOVE Thy Neighbor program is a Local
Outreach Volunteer Effort, focusing on helping address needs of the Ann
Arbor homeless and hungry. Since its founding in 2008, LOVE has provided
over 10,000 weekly lunches on Saturdays. With a 60% increase in the cost
of lunch components and the distribution of canned and dehydrated
meals for 46 out of the 64 weeks in 2009 and early 2010, LOVE has been
able to improve the lives of about 1500 individuals.
Peace Neighborhood Center For
many children, the food served at Peace Neighborhood Center is their
primary meal. PNC has been serving Ann Arbor area children, families, and
adults for over 38 years. In 2009, 245 children ages 3-18 were served over
13,500 hot, nutritious meals and received 3,850 hours of tutoring. Peace
Neighborhood Center helped over 247 households maintain housing in 2009.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw
County – This organization helps people live safe, meaningful
and independent lives, in a more just community. Through the dignity of
all creation, compassion, preferential option for people who are disadvantaged
and community stewardship, CSSWC offers programs to serve these needs.
Their Emergency Food Program distributes groceries every Tuesday, Thursday
and the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month at the Northside Community Center.
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.
St. Andrew’s Breakfast Program
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.
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.
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.
Packard Health
Packard Health's food pantry and medication assistance programs aid
patients who are unable to afford groceries or prescription medication.
The food pantry also offers nutrition education and food stability planning
services.
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.
Avalon Housing is
a community-based, non-profit organization dedicated to developing and
managing permanent supportive rental housing for people with extremely
low incomes in Washtenaw County. We own and / or operate 324 units, scattered
at twenty three sites throughout Ann Arbor. Ten of these sites are participating
in Edible Avalon, our community gardening program, bringing organic community
gardening on-site at ten of our properties.
Non-Perishable Canned Goods Collected
and Donated to:
Northfield Human Services Food
Pantry Canned goods collected will be used to supplement food that is distributed
to the hungry.
Emmanuel House EH operates
2 homes for elderly who have limited income, family resources, and are
in need of 24 hour care. Both homes are staffed entirely by volunteers,
no paid staff. Canned good collected will be used to supplement meals for
the residents.
International Efforts (75%
of the funds go to efforts like the following):
Credit: Church World Service Website 
Pakistan – Church World Service
is working with on-site partner agencies to provide food and shelter supplies
to families affected by the devastating floods. The CWS food packages
include rice, wheat flour, beans, cooking oil, tea, sugar and salt--enough
for a family of five for a month. The shelter kits include winterized
tents and plastic sheets. In addition, CWS's mobile health facilities
are providing free treatment and medicines. For recent news, visit
www.churchworldservice.org.
• The United States
of America - Flooding in recent weeks throughout the
Midwest has put additional pressures on a region that had already been
affected by earlier floods and tornadoes. Hundreds of homes in at least
four states--Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin --have been either
destroyed or damaged. CWS is using its expertise by helping to organize
long-term recovery with mentoring and/or webinar instruction. CWS
also supplies Emergency Clean-up Buckets containing scouring pads, sponges,
scrub brush, cleaning towels, laundry detergent, household cleaner, disinfectant
dish soap, clothes-pins, 100-foot clothesline, dust masks, latex gloves,
work gloves, heavy-duty trash bags, and liquid insect repellent.
A girl washes laundry in a camp in Port-au-Prince for
families left homeless by Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Credit:
Paul Jeffrey/ACT 
• The Gran Chaco
region of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay - This 235,000
square-mile region is a fragile ecosystem containing the last unexplored
wilderness in South America. It includes areas of almost impenetrable thorny
forests and cactus. Drought is common, making sustainable agriculture
difficult. CWS is working with local partners to train indigenous
families in new techniques, such as developing seed banks and raising goats
and hogs. The program promotes youth education and women's empowerment,
and helps communities to gain title to their traditional lands. CWS
has also provided 42 families with a reliable water supply, building tanks,
pipelines and wells with help from the community.
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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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