Thank you to fundraiser volunteers

We want to thank the walkers and sponsors who raised over $36,000 last month through the Greater Allentown and Bethlehem CROP Hunger Walks (events. crophungerwalk.org/2022/event/allentownpa and events.crophungerwalk. org/2022/event/ bethlehempa) on behalf of our food-insecure neighbors.

Twenty-five percent of the funds raised will return to the Lehigh Valley to benefit such ministries as the Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank and the Lehigh Conference of Churches’ Conference Kitchen in Allentown and several food pantries in Bethlehem. The remaining funds are used to aid disaster relief, development, and refugee resettlement efforts worldwide. Most recently, CROP Hunger Walk funds have been used to assist those devastated by flooding in the United States and by the war in Ukraine.

What a wonderful tribute to one very tangible way in which Christian, Jewish and Muslim congregations work together with businesses, local political and community leaders, schools, and other groups and individuals to help our neighbors in need.

The Rev. Dianne Kareha

South Whitehall Township

The writer is the Convener, Greater Allentown CROP Hunger Walk.