Valley City  (CSi)  157 individuals participated in the annual Crop Walk for Hunger May 10, 2017 in Valley City.

The CROP WALK for HUNGER fights hunger at home and globally.

Co-event coordinator Sharon Buhr says twenty percent of the money raised will benefit the Barnes County Food Pantry and the balance goes to Church World Service Crop for Hunger relief and development work, internationally, adding, a portion of the funds going toward digging wells and putting in hand pumps so people will not have to walk an average of three miles for  water.

Over 800 million people in the world do not have access to clean water.

 

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Valley City  (CSi)   The Valley City  CROP Walk for Hunger event is Wednesday, May 10, at 7-pm.  The walk starts at Faith Lutheran Church; registration begins at 6:30- pm.

Event Chairperson, Sharon Buhr, says, “Everyone is welcome to walk or donate.”

The walk is  5 kilometers or about 3 miles.  When the walk originally in 1981,  was 20 km  or12 miles, and  later was reduced to 10 km 6 miles, and is now  5 km.