CROP Walk Yields Healthy Pledge Harvest
Local citizens band together for walk to help end hunger and poverty.
More than 350 local citizens from toddlers to senior citizens responded with a firm show of solidarity in the 20th annual Attleboro Area Interfaith Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty (CROP) Hunger Walk held on Sunday afternoon. Everyone, including Father John Sullivan of the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, successfully completed the three-mile route beginning and ending at Capron Park earning more than $20,000 in pledges made by church, family and neighborhood sponsors. CROP supports the efforts of Church World Service throughout the world and funnels some of the money to local charities. Attleboro is one of 2,000 communities across the U.S. that annually joins in one of more than 1,600 CROP Hunger Walks. "Of what we …
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