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Fourth annual Luna CROP Walk to take place at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26
Luna’s Fourth Annual CROP Walk is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26 at the Maria H. Paiz Administration Building. The walk, less than a mile long, circles the campus.
CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk events held in cities and towns across the nation, raising funds to support the global mission of Church World Service, a faith-based organization that responds to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster around the world.
Locally, 25 percent of all donations will go to support local entities: Comedor de San Pascual Soup Kitchen, Las Vegas Community Soup Kitchen and the Samaritan House.
Luna is one of several entities from around the community that have joined the worthy cause. This is the 23rd year for Las Vegas’ CROP Hunger Walk.
The CROP Project was organized in 1947 when farmers were asked to donate food and seed crops in post-World War II Europe and Asia. In 1969, the first walk events were organized in Bismarck, N.D., and York, Pa., to raise money. Since then, CROP Hunger Walk events have been held in communities all over the United States, raising millions of dollars in an effort to eradicate hunger and poverty.
Everyone is invited to participate in Luna’s Fourth Annual CROP Walk .