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CROP Hunger Walk Charity Fundraiser 2014 To Fight Hunger - Long Island New York |
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at the Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, Nassau Colunty, Long Island, New York |
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October 18, 2014 |
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10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Eisenhower Park Parking Field #1 |
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Merrick Avenue |
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East Meadow, NY 11554 |
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CROP Hunger Walk Charity Fundraiser 2014 To Fight Hunger at the Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, Nassau Colunty, Long Island, New York.
Join Holy Trinity Orthodox Church of East Meadow and other local parishes for a 1 or 2 mile walk to benefit Church World Service's food drive on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at Eisenhower Park.
Registration at 10:00AM in the Dogwood area of Parking Field 1 and the walk begins at 11:00AM.
Snacks and music follow the walk. For more information or to sponsor walkers, please visit www.cropwalkonline.org or email arlenekallaur@hotmail.com.
About CROP Hunger Walks
Ending Hunger One Step At A Time>/i>
CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by local congregations or groups to raise funds to end hunger at home and around the world. With its inception in 1969, CROP Hunger Walks are "viewed by many as the granddaddy of charity walks," notes the Los Angeles Times (Oct. 26, 2009).
On October 17, 1969, a thousand people in Bismarck, ND, walked in what may have been the start of the hunger walks related to CROP and raised $25,000 to help stop hunger. As far as we know, York County, Pennsylvania, was the first walk officially called the CROP Walk for the Hungry and that event has been continuous since 1970. Several other CROP Hunger Walks occurred soon thereafter, and before long there were hundreds of Walks each year in communities nationwide.
Currently, well over 2,000 communities across the United States join in more than 1,600 CROP Hunger Walks each year. More than five million CROP Hunger Walkers have participated in more than 36,000 CROP Hunger Walks in the last two decades alone. |
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516-486-3649 |
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