San Francisco CROP Hunger Walk April 29, 2012

Let’s unite in the fight against extreme poverty! The San Francisco Interfaith Council, Faiths Act, and Church World Service have teamed up this year to coordinate San Francisco’s 2012 Multifaith CROP Hunger Walk – an annual, national walk that raises money and awareness to fight extreme poverty. The walk will be held on Sunday, April 29th at Lake Merced in San Francisco.

In every walk, 25% of the funds stay local and go toward hunger-fighting programs. In San Francisco, those funds support the San Francisco Interfaith Council’s Winter Interfaith Shelter, which feeds and houses hundreds of homeless men throughout the winter.

The other 75% go abroad to fight extreme poverty. San Francisco is making a city-wide push to fight malaria through the Faiths Act program of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. When one specifies “TBFF” as its agency, the 75% of funds raised that go abroad will go in full to malaria prevention through the Faiths Act in Sierra Leone program. This initiative is an interfaith, grassroots effort that works with faith communities as well as the Sierra Leone ministry of health to provide education to 100,000 households on malaria prevention and treatment. You can read more about the recipient project at faithsact.org/pages/faith-acts-sierra-leone. Funds unspecified will go to Church World Service at large.

Malaria is one of the key factors that keeps families and children in cycles of extreme poverty –the complexities of extreme poverty around the globe are intricately connected to the fight against malaria, from which a child dies every 60 seconds.

Join hundreds of other San Francisco residents on April 29th to overcome extreme poverty! For more information and to find out how to participate, visit www.cropwalksf.org.