CROP Hunger Walk 2008
Restaurant Day
These Bainbridge Island restaurants
will donate a portion of their
September 25th profits to the
CROP Hunger Walk:
Bainbridge Island BBQ
Blue Ocean Cafe
Cafe Nola
Casa Rojas
Commuter Comforts
Doc’s Marina Grill
Four Swallows
Mora Iced Creamery
Harbour Public House
Island Pizza
New Rose Café
Pegasus Coffee House and Gallery
Richie’s 305
San Carlos Restaurant
Sawatdy Thai Cuisine
Streamliner Diner
Teriyaki Town
That’s a Some Pizza
A reminder to all that this year’s CROP Hunger Walk recruiter’s training will be held at Grace Episcopal Church at 7 p.m. on August 19th. Please be there to see a presentation by Lynn Magnuson on her latest trip to see first hand our CROP Hunger Walk dollars at work. We will be distributing your walker’s packets & 2008 resources.
Please save Sunday afternoon, September 28, to join islanders of all faith traditions in our 13th annual CROP Hunger Walk. The walk benefits the Helpline House food bank, Fishline, and the work of Church World Service partners in the U.S. and overseas. The Walk will begin and end at Eagle Harbor Church this year. Registration starts a 1:30 followed by the Walk at 2:00 p.m.
Over the last 12 years our community has raised $368,920 through our Walk, including $91,706 for Helpline House and Fishline. All donations this year will be matched, for the fifth time, by our anonymous donor.
Please watch for the list of restaurants participating in CROP Restaurant Day on September 25th. They have agreed to share their profits that day with the Walk.
To donate or join our walk please click here:
http://cws.convio.net/site/TR/CropWalks/General?pg=entry&fr_id=2317
What are CROP Hunger Walks?
They are neighbors from different faiths, cultures, and ages, walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world. Together we raise awareness and funds for international relief and development, as well as local hunger-fighting agencies. Some 2,000 communities across the country take part each year.
What does CROP mean?
Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty
What’s the point of walking?
Hungry people in developing countries typically walk as much as six miles a day to get food, water, and fuel, ant to take their goods to market. We walk to be in solidarity with their struggle for existence. We walk because they walk.
Where does the money go?
CROP Hunger Walks help fight hunger and poverty around the world, including the United States. In the last 20 years, Walks have raised over $264 million to assist those struggling to feed their families.
What makes CROP Hunger Walks special?
They are community-based and interfaith. They assist locally and globally. And Walk donors may designate their gifts to other approved international hunger-fighting agencies. No one else does that.
What difference does it make?
Funds raised in a CROP Hunger Walk assist people in need around the world. For example:
$72 can provide emergency food supplies for a family of five for a month.
$120 can enable three women to attend a literacy class for a year and change their lives forever.
$200 can provide a struggling farm family with a water buffalo to significantly increase their food production, as well as a strong back to carry produce to market.
$350 can enable the eldest in a child-headed household of AIDS orphans to receive vocational training so that they can support their siblings and themselves.
$1,050 can support community-based health, hygiene, and sanitation training for an entire community.
For more information about CROP Hunger Walks click on www.cropwalk.org.
