2025 CROP Hunger Walk

The Champlain Islands CROP Hunger Walk had a great day on October 5 as we walked together in support of our neighbors around the world who are hungry and in support of our partners who help deliver food, hope, and sustainability.

Early statistics:
35 walkers signed in!
Our donations total to date is $15,500!

You can continue to raise funds – let’s see if we can reach $16,000 or beyond!

Contribute and invite and encourage friends, families, others to contribute.
On line: https://events.crophungerwalk.org/southherovt
Check: make out to CWS/CROP and bring to the Walk; drop off at the Congregational Church of South Hero UCC (CCSH) office; or mail to CCSH, P.O. Box 99, South Hero, VT 05486.
Cash: place in an envelope marked for the CROP Hunger Walk and drop off at the CCSH office.  Please DO NOT mail cash.
RMD from a retirement account or from a Donor Advised Fund: designate for the Champlain Islands 2025 CROP Hunger Walk. You can give directly to Church World Service or to CCSH. Church World Service contact information is at the on line site above. Tax Exempt ID, which you may need: 13-408201

In 2024, Walkers and supporters raised a record $15,683, nearly $4,000 of which was returned to the Champlain Islands to be shared by our local hunger relief partners, the Champlain Islands Food Shelf and Food For Thought.
In 2025:
25% of our contributions are returned to our local hunger relief partner, the Champlain Islands Food Shelf. Because of State support for a summer food program on the Champlain Islands, Food for Thought decided that all of this year's CROP Hunger Walk money should support the Food Shelf.
75% of our contributions support hunger and disaster relief nationally (e.g., TX floods, CA wildfires, VT floods) and globally (e.g., a refugee camp on the Myanmar Cambodian border suffering from the loss of USAID food aid).
With the federal cuts in the amount of our tax dollars supporting USAID, other US federal food aid (e.g., to the VT Food Bank), and other US federal humanitarian programs, the need in 2025 is greater than ever. Please join the Walk, invite others to join and to give, and give as generously as you can.

With this one gift, you provide food, disease prevention, disaster relief, and other needed help to local, national, and international neighbors.

If you have questions or need more information, please see or contact the adult Planning Committee members:
Mark Kennedy (maylskenn@yahoo.com)
Cathy Rude (catherine.rude@yahoo.com)
Kaight Althoff (kaighta@gmail.com)
Judy Ayers (bjayers766@comcast.net)
Margaret Nowak (ccshvt@gmail.com)

Want to be part of a group? Check out the list of teams already started - or create your own!