Looking to make a difference in our local community and in communities worldwide, the Abington Area CROP Hunger Walk has set a goal of 200 Walkers and hopes to raise $10,000 to help end hunger and poverty through long-term sustainable approaches to significantly reduce or eliminate hunger. Countryside Conservancy has, once again, donated the use of their Trolley Trail.
Register with a group or individually at http://crophungerwalk.org/clarkssummitpa.
Registration and Pre-registered check-in on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022, will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Dalton Fire Company, 109 S. Turnpike Road, Dalton, PA 18414. The Walk will begin at 2:00 p.m., will follow the Countryside Conservancy’s Trolley Trail and will be a total of three miles (half the length of the Trail and back).
This year, the Abington Area and some 1,000 other communities nationwide are joining together in interfaith CROP Hunger Walks around the theme “Ending hunger one step at a time.” Many of the Walkers will be wearing t-shirts proclaiming their solidarity with the millions of neighbors around the world who have to walk to live — as well as with the millions served by local food pantries, food banks and meal sites here in the U.S. These local ministries share in the funds raised by CROP Hunger Walks.
From combating droughts in Nicaragua to providing agricultural training in Indonesia to stocking shelves in hundreds of food pantries across the United States, CROP Hunger Walks are fighting hunger. Twenty-five percent of all the CROP Hunger Walk funds raised here in the Abington Area be divided between five local food programs including the Dalton Food Pantry, Northern Lackawanna Food Share, Friends of the Poor, Keystone Mission, and the St. Francis Soup Kitchen.
To find additional information or to register for the Walk, see http://crophungerwalk.org/clarkssummitpa or email abingtoncropwalk@gmail.com.
