Walk to End Hunger Nets More Than $15,000
Scorching heat wasn’t enough to daunt 75 walkers who trudged five kilometers for the seventh annual Marin End Hunger Walk.
“It is an interfaith effort to alleviate hunger locally and around the world,” said organizer David Griffis, who raised about $750 from 25 sponsors.
The walkers, many of them members of Marin churches, parishes and synagogues, raised $15,000 to $16,000, compared with $12,000 last year, Griffis said.
“We walk because so many people have to walk long distances every day for food and water and they walk in even hotter weather,” said Louis Frost, of the First Congregational Church in San Rafael.
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