Join the Annandale CROP Hunger Walk

Participants in a previous Annandale CROP Hunger Walk. [Photos: ACCA]

Community members are invited to contribute to a good cause while enjoying a walk around Lake Accotink on Saturday, Oct. 19.

The event is the Annandale CROP Hunger Walk sponsored by the Annandale Christian Community for Action (ACCA). Registration starts at 8 a.m. near the marina, and there will be a short opening ceremony at 8:15 a.m.

From the left: Mason Supervisor Penny Gross, Braddock Supervisor John Cook, Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bulova, Annandale CROP Hunger Walk organizer Camille Mittelholtz, and Ken Mittelholtz.

ACCA hopes to raise $21,000 for long-term solutions to hunger. A portion of the funds raised in Annandale will support ACCA’s efforts to combat hunger and poverty in the Annandale/Mason District area.

To join the walk or donate, sign up online. You can register as an individual, join a team, or make a donation in your name or in the name of someone who has already registered.

The CROP Hunger Walk is a national movement raising funds for Church World Service and local agencies to support their efforts to combat hunger and poverty across the world. Last year, CROP Hunger Walk events raised more than $8.3 million.

Annandale is just one of some 800 other communities nationwide joining together in interfaith CROP Hunger Walks this year around the theme “Stepping up to end hunger since 1969.”

This is the 50th anniversary of the national CROP Hunger Walk, which was started by a group of young people in Bismarck, N.D. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the first Annandale CROP Hunger Walk.

CROP stands for Christian Rural Overseas Program, an initiative created decades ago by Church World Service to help farmers share their grain with needy families in post-World War II Europe and Asia. The organization has outgrown that mission but retains the name.