The Barrington Area CROP Hunger Walk is an annual community hunger education and fund raising event sponsored by Church World Service, an international ecumenical relief, development and refugee resettlement agency providing assistance in the United States and around the world. The WALK is supported by churches, schools, civic organizations, businesses and individuals in the Barrington area. Twenty-five percent (25%) of all funds raised is allocated for local agencies that serve people in need of food. Those recipient agencies for 2011 are listed on the left and pictured below. Click on them for more information.
The 29th Annual Barrington Area CROP Hunger Walk will be held Sunday, October 16, 2011. St. Mark's Episcopal Church is chairing the event. The Walk will begin and end this year at St. Anne Catholic Community, 120 N. Ela St., Barrington. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. on October 16.
Committee members of the 2011 Barrington Area CROP Walk are busy making plans to "end hunger one step at a time."
Local agencies receive funds from area CROP Hunger Walk
Twenty-five percent of the funds raised from the CROP Walk are distributed to local agencies to fight hunger. Representatives of the agencies receiving funds in the past several years are pictured above with members of the 2008 committee. Pictured above, left to right are: Barbara Schwartz, Chair 2008 Barrington Area CROP Hunger Walk; Konrad Bald representing the Northern Illinois Food Bank in the absence of Sue Erickson; Sarah Hoban, Barrington Council on Aging and the Meals With Wheels program; Pat Karon, Barrington Giving Day; Joanne Miller, Wauconda Island Lake Food Pantry; Marilyn Mack, FISH Food Pantry, Carpentersville; Mary Anderson, PIN Project of the Barrington Area Ministerial Association. Not Pictured: St. Anne's Project Hope. In 2009, the total raised was $43,838, with 25%, or $10,950 distibuted to these agencies.
The Barrington Area CROP Hunger Walk was well represented in the 2010 Barrington Fourth of July Parade.
For additional information contact one of the event co-chairpersons, Christine Melone or Pam Jensen, at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 847-381-0596. Or email them at
eschoon@st-markschurch.org
