Wake Forest’s 35th annual CROP Hunger Walk 2014 will take place Sunday, Sept. 28.
Walkers will sign in at Wake Forest United Methodist Church at 905 South Main Street at 2:30 p.m. The walk will step off at 3 p.m. The route is approximately 5K. Drinking-water stations will be provided. It is not a requirement to walk the entire distance.
Register online at http://www.cropwalkonline.org/wakeforestnc or at the sign-in table on Sept. 28. Invite your friends and family members to do the same.
Make tax-deductible donations online or at sign-in. Consider donating either the price of a meal that you enjoy at your favorite restaurant or the dollar amount of a week’s groceries in support of “Ending hunger one step at a time.”
Bring along non-perishable foods for donation to the Tri-Area Ministry’s food pantry. Youth volunteers will stack all the cans and boxes of food and will encourage everyone to take Helpie photos in front of the display.
Before and after the walk, visit the table where you can write notes of encouragement to members of the local households that receive one grocery bag filled with food once a month from Tri-Area Ministry. Bring along a camera to take “Helpie” photos of yourself and others in front of a pyramid of boxes and cans of food that will grow taller as you and other walkers and teams drop off the contributions.
This year’s event goal is at least 200 walkers and donations of $10,000 or more to help end hunger and poverty here in our community and around the world. One-fourth of the funds raised here and all the donated food will go to the Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry located in Wake Forest.
The team that raises the most in sponsorship donations will receive the coveted traveling award, the Golden Sneaker Challenge Award, with the organization’s name engraved on it for the year 2014. Visit the website to learn more, to register as a walker, to join an existing team, and/or to make a donation in support of this worthy cause. http://www.cropwalkonline.org/wakeforestnc.
