A CROP Walk? You mean you're going to walk through a field?

"Are you walking in the CROP Walk?"
"The what walk?  I'm not walking through a field!"
"No, no, no.  The CROP Hunger Walk - Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty!"

Sound like deja vu to you?  If you've participated in a CROP Hunger Walk, then I imagine that you've engaged in a similar conversation at some point.  So, what exactly is a CROP Hunger Walk and does it involve fields?

CROP began in 1947 and were originally an acronym for the Christian Rural Overseas Program, who's primary mission was to help Midwest farm families to share their grain with hungry neighbors in post-World War II Europe and Asia.  So, yes, at one point, it did involve walking in a field!  On October 17, 1969, in Bismark, ND, the first-ever CROP Hunger Walk was held with a thousand people in attendance, raising $25,000.  The CROP Hunger Walk has evolved since that October day and so has it's name.  CROP now stands for Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty and the walks do not involve fields (unless your route happens to walk past one).

Today, CROP Hunger Walks are interfaith hunger education and fundraising events sponsored by Church World Service, a cooperative ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations who provide self-help and development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance around the world, including the US.

Won't you join the more than five million CROP Hunger Walkers and take a walk, not through a field, but through your city streets, in solidarity to help end hunger and poverty?

Please visit www.greatergreensborocropwalk.org to learn more about the Greater Greensboro CROP Hunger Walk.