Hunger Hike - Fighting Hunger with Heart & Sole
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Hunger Hike 2019 Needs YOUR Support
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Dear Friend,
On Sunday,
September 22
, we will be joining with hundreds of participants in the annual Greater Lafayette
Hunger Hike
at Riehle Plaza in downtown Lafayette, and we need your help to make our efforts matter!
Here in Central Indiana, surrounded by the most productive farmland on the planet, in the wealthiest nation on earth, food insecurity remains a baffling reality for far too many of our neighbors. A full
70% of the students enrolled in Lafayette School Corporation participate in the federal free and reduced school lunch program
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They are children whose parents constantly worry about whether food at home will run out before they get enough money to buy more. They live in households where there isn’t always enough to afford well-balanced, nutritional meals.
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Altogether, about 14 percent of U.S. households – roughly 48 million people or
one in seven Americans
– go hungry at some point during the year. This number actually underestimates the problem because the survey excludes the homeless and transients, groups that almost by definition lack enough food.
Yet despite the widespread and complex nature of the problem, the solution to food insecurity in our community is surprisingly basic: we must respond by providing food to children and adults who don’t have enough to eat.
One of the most important ways to do this is through your continued support of
Hunger Hike
.
Hunger Hike
is a 3K fundraising walk along the beautiful Wabash Heritage Trail in Lafayette. It takes place on
Sunday, September 22
. Our goal this year is to raise
$100,000
for the hunger relief efforts of Lafayette Urban Ministry, Food Finders Food Bank, Inc. and Haiti Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas Center.
I hope you will come out and hike with us this year. You can find out how by visiting
hungerhike.org
. I also hope that you will make a generous gift to Hunger Hike, right now, prior to the event.
Your gift of $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000 or more
, will allow our three, hunger-fighting partners to better fulfill their missions of
feeding hungry children
and
strengthening families
who are experiencing food insecurity.
- At Lafayette Urban Ministry, your gift will allow the new LUM Protein Food Pantry to provide healthful meat, fruit, vegetable and dairy products to 2,100 families who will come for help during the next year. It will cover the cost of infant formula and baby food. It will help to provide the paper products that SNAP assistance won’t. It will also help to pay for 20,000 meals to the homeless and 35,000 nutritious snacks to low-income children that LUM provides each day.
- At Food Finders Food Bank, Inc., your gift will allow for the expansion of the classes and programs offered in their Mobile Food Pantry and Food Resource & Education Center – an important initiative to educate clients in self-sufficiency as a means to reduce their food insecurity.
- At St. Thomas Aquinas, your gift will reach beyond our community to allow the Haiti Ministry to expand the nursing outreach program, assist in establishing a community store, and further develop the hybrid seed & food storage programs to increase crop yields.
Hunger Hike
is our community’s oldest and most well-respected fundraising walk, dating back to the early 1970’s. Last year more than 1,000 people participated in the event. Over the years, more than $
2 million dollars has been raised
, providing a critical social safety net to thousands of hungry children and adults. Your past support of Hunger Hike has allowed us to wage an aggressive fight against hunger in both our own community, the region and in Haiti.
We hope you will join us again this year by walking a little farther – and digging a little deeper.
Please, won’t you make a generous gift to
Hunger Hike
today?
Gratefully,
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How YOU Can Participate & Make a Difference
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Needed: Fundraisers, Hikers, Walkers & Teams
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Hunger Hike is a community fundraising event for individuals & teams whose mission is to
raise awareness & funds for food programs — locally, regionally, & globally. We hope you'll want to be involved.
- Donate to Hunger Hike – click HERE
- Register for Hunger Hike and create or join a Hunger Hike Team – click HERE
- Donate to a Hunger Hike Team – click HERE
- Donate to a “Hiker” – click HERE
- Collection Form (PDF) – click HERE
- Texas Roadhouse Restaurant Fundraising Night (Oct. 1) info & coupon – click HERE
- Hunger Hike Flier (8.5"x11") PDF - HERE
- Sunday, September 22
- Noon – Check-in & DJ music; 1 p.m. – Kick-off event begins; 1:15 p.m. – Zumba, Purdue Pete & Boilermaker Special; 2 p.m. – Hike starts; 3 p.m. – Hot Dog Picnic
- Riehle Plaza, 2nd Street, Lafayette, IN
Hunger Hike
is the perfect event for a team or group — church group, student organization, civic group or your family. Put together a
Hunger Hike
team and start raising money using our
online fundraising site
— or any other way you choose. We hope you’ll consider joining our Fight against Hunger.
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Hunger Hike's Sponsoring Organizations
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All Proceeds from Hunger Hike Benefit...
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