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Name of WALK and/or community] CROP Hunger Walk -- helping end hunger locally and globally

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[Name of Walk and/or community] CROP Hunger Walk to be held on [date].

Organized locally, the [Name of Walk and/or community] CROP Hunger Walk has set a goal of [number] Walkers and hopes to raise $ to help stop hunger and poverty here in our community and around the world, through self-help initiatives. A portion of the funds raised here in will go to the [e.g. hunger-fighting work or food pantry] of [name of local agency(ies)].

Last year, [number of Walkers] Walkers raised more than $ in the CROP Hunger Walk.

This year [name of community] and some 2,000 cities and towns nationwide are joining together in interfaith community CROP Hunger Walks around the theme "We walk because they walk." Many of the CROP Walkers will be wearing "We walk because they walk" 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.

Central America is one part of the world where CROP Hunger Walks are making a big difference. In Guatemala, for example, indigenous families -- especially the women -- are learning how to grow more and better foods for their families, using appropriate technology such as greenhouses and catchment irrigation, alongside creative solutions of their own design -- used tires as mini-garden planters. They are also learning how to organize themselves, how to gain social and economic empowerment, and how to market their extra harvest.

For more information about the CROP Hunger Walk, contact [list person or persons and phone number(s)].

CROP means Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty.

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