Hunger = Disenfranchisement: Walk to end hunger and for justice for all
Hundreds throughout Schenectady and thousands throughout the United States will participate in the CROP Hunger Walk: Ending Hunger One Step at a Time. As we set out to walk or to journey in a way that is significant for you I want to encourage everyone to do so with an intentional prayer in your heart and mind. Ending hunger has been the decades-old stake on the ground of the Schenectady Community Ministries. Decades later we continue here, with hunger as a significant expression of the need and struggle of many in the community we live in.
As we walk I invite you to keep the violent reality of hunger in Schenectady in your mind and heart. I also invite you to keep the causes and consequences of hunger in your heart and mind. Hunger is a reality for those who are poor. And poverty is not a chosen state of affairs. Poverty is the result of very strategic and very intentional structures put in place by political and financial interests. Poverty is a form of marginalization, and the poor suffer from food insecurity. Hunger and food insecurity are also direct causes of malnutrition, chronic sickness, inability to perform well in school or work, among far too many others circumstance that perpetuate social disadvantages. Hunger is violent marginalization, and we are here to end it, one step at a time.
As we journey to end hunger - whether walking or in a way you find significant - we do so prayerfully for those who are victims of the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate hunger, and also committed to the work of justice that lies ahead... one person at a time... one step at a time.
May we have a blessed walk! May our actions witness to solidarity, equity and justice by all and for all.