CROP WALK

Everyone has had an experience that made you think about how fortunate you are. Whether it be walking through the city and seeing a homeless person begging you for money, or maybe just looking outside your window and seeing nice cars in a happy neighborhood with kids playing with all their toys out in the front yards. Well, anyways, today I had one of those experiences. Through my church, I found out about a fundraiser that was going on in my community. I decided to try it out and see what it was all about and figured it would be for a good cause. I recieved an envelope that instructed me how to recieve and record donations. After talking to some people in the church, I learned that CROP stood for Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty. Wow, what a great cause. This morning, I arrived at the gathering place, turned in the donations I recieved, and walked around to collect more information about the organization. I heard someone speak about how he saw first-hand how beneficial the organization is to people all around the world, and his story really touched me. He spoke of the malnourishment he witnessed which got me thinking how much we waste and how little others have. The people who were involved with the organization expressed so genuinely how thankful they were that we were walking with them. It just seemed to me how incredibly simple my action was, but how greatly it affected others.

http://www.cropwalk.org/ see for yourself!!!

Here's a story on the website that i thought was INCREDIBLE:

Walking for water
"Recently, long-time CROP Walker Henry Jones left his home in Fullerton, California, on a trip to Kenya. Jones recalls his visit to a drought-stricken Maasai community in the Narok District where he “visited a new deep well bringing clean water to a village. Before, some women carried water for over 10 miles, and the water was making them and their families sick.”
As is the common practice throughout the region, the women use 20-liter plastic jugs, which they strap onto their head for the trek to and from the water source. This so impressed Jones that he decided to bring one of these jugs home to show his fellow CROP Walkers, so they too could imagine the time, effort, and physical toll so many people must endure in their pursuit of water. On Walk day, he filled the jug with water and had everyone guess the weight. People gathered around and tugged and grunted as they tried to lift the heavy jug off the ground. There were a wide variety of guesses, but only one winner, who guessed 50.1 pounds (actual weight was 50.3 pounds). This year, the Fullerton CROP Hunger Walk raised more than $60,000, surpassing all prior efforts in its 26-year history."