Episcopal Press and News

R.I. Pair Walk to Feed the Hungry

Episcopal News Service. February 26, 1987 [87044]

CRANSTON, R.I. (DPS, Feb. 26) -- After the Diocese of Rhode Island's annual Hunger March, Dan Whipple of St. David's on-the-Hill and Jack Kirkconnel of the Church of the Ascension here will be taking the long way home -- via Seattle.

The two men, members of the Diocesan Hunger Task Force, will be flying to Seattle May 17 and walking back home to Rhode Island in order to help raise awareness of the problems of hunger as well as to raise funds for the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief. The walk, called "Two Against Hunger," is being co-sponsored by the Rhode Island Hunger Task Force and the Presiding Bishop's fund, with ten percent of the funds raised being returned to the Rhode Island Task Force for its work with the needy.

The annual Diocesan Hunger March will continue, as it has for the past ten years. Last year's event raised $12,000, half of which was used for local Episcopal Church and ecumenical projects such as food pantries and soup kitchens. The remaining $6,000 was sent to the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.

The walk is a new, additional focus which grew out of the Hunger arch. Whipple and Kirkronnell view it as their own personal expression of commitment. Whipple said, "It doesn't matter whether you walk across the country or around the block...," it's the fight against hunger that really matters.