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The
2009 Walk will be held on Sunday, May 3rd starting at Pilgrim
Congregational Church, 460 Lake Street, Oak Park.
Registration
will begin at 1:15PM and the step off time is 2PM.In 2008 $74,642.72 was raised
and $18,723.16 distributed
to local agencies. Thank You!
Twenty-five percent of the funds
raised by the WALK help locally by supporting Cluster Tutoring Program,
Columbus Park Food Pantry, Forest
Park Food Pantry, Oak Park/River Forest Food Pantry, Oak Park River
Forest Walk-In Ministry, Pine Avenue Food Pantry, Proviso Food Pantry,
Vital Bridges, St Eulalia Food Pantry West Suburban PADS.
Seventy-five percent is used
by Church World Service (CWS) for disaster relief, self-help development
projects & food
in more than eighty impoverished countries.
One-hundred percent of the money raised by walkers goes
to Church World Service (CWS) & local
agencies to alleviate hunger. Business sponsors provide funds to cover
all administrative costs with the excess sponsor money going directly
for hunger relief.
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