Americans Giving 25% More to CROP Appeal
1974 will be remembered as the year of many things,
among them the year that Americans became fully aware
of the world hunger crisis.
This increased awareness, and a desire to do something
to, correct the problem, was reflected in their giving to
CROP - the Community Hunger Appeal of Church World
Service.
In 1974, people all across America gave $4,029,558 to the
CROP Hunger Appeal. This was an increase of 25 percent
over 1973. An additional $312,418 was given to purchase
blankets for the Church World Service Clothing Appeal,
administered by CROP.
1974 witnessed many changes in the world hunger
situation. The Sahel of West Africa, drought-ridden for six
years, finally received adequate rainfall. CROP-CWS
programs in this area, which had been focusing on
emergency aid, shifted to long-range development
projects. CROP funds are now being used to build a new
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way of life for thousands of nomads, helping them become
settled farmers.
Elsewhere, the situation continued to worsen. The In
dian sub-continent, India and Bangladesh, faces its worst
famine since the great famine of Bengal in 1943. There are
still serious food shortages in some areas of the Sahel and
in many nations across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
CROP has already begun to respond to this critical
need. In January, 1975, 1,000 metric tons of wheat from
CROP and CWS is sailing for India. This is the first of
planned multiple shipments to help alleviate the suffering
in that nation.
CROP also responded to the many natural disasters that
rocked the world in 1974 with clothing, blankets and food.
CROP Regional Directors served as resource persons to
help several U.S. communities recover after the spring
tornadoes that hit the midwestern United States. When
Hurricane Fifi cut its deadly swath across Honduras,
CROP immediately sent in high-protein food and
chocolate milk drink to aid the victims.
This aid was made possible by the thousands of
volunteers who worked on their own, and in conjunction
with the 17 CROP Regional Offices, to raise funds to help
hungry people. These volunteers canvassed their neigh
bors, recruited sponsors for walking and fasting and
worked in innumerable ways to make this a record year
for CROP. In many rural areas, farmers donated gram or
profits from “Friendship Acres.” Various corporations in
the United States contributed food products, seeds, tools
and cash worth $204,419.
Again in 1974, the Mid-Atlantic Region led in con
tributions with a total of $412,877. The highest single state
was Kansas with $410,964. Other states that went over
$300,000 in donations were Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey
and Ohio.
The year 1974 also saw many new ways adopted by
CROP volunteers to raise funds. A New Jersey man twice
braved a carnival “dunk tank” for CROP. A pastor in
Kansas walked backwards the entire length of a CROP
Walk For the Hungry. Ralph Waite of “The Waltons” led
1,800 people across Pomona, California, including some
crippled youth who literally wore the wheels off their
wheelchairs. An 80-year young California lady surprised
everyone but herself by completing a 10-mile hunger
walk. And m Illinois, a group of melodic CROP workers
unlimbered their vocal cords for the first CROP Hymn-a-
Thon!
Throughout the year, CROP provided seeds, tools, other
self-help materials and food for “food-for-work” projects
to over 30 countries on five continents. In addition,
blankets and clothing amounting to 2,528,480 pounds were
given to CROP to be sent around the world to help disaster
victims.
PSU Poultry
Short Course
Dates Set
Penn State’s 1975 Poultry
Sales-Service Short Course is
scheduled tor April 1 and 2
according to Floyd W Hicks,
extension poultry specialist
The conference will be held
iff University Park, at the
J 0 Keller Conference
Center.
The conference starts at 9
a.m. on April 1 and runs to
noon the next day. Topics
include information on
current health management
programs, rodent control,
personnel management and
motivation, using the
computer to forecast the
future, and many other
important industry op
portunities (problems).
Speakers include Dr. C. C
Sheppard of Michigan State
University and Drs. L. D.
Schwartz and Robert Gentry
of Penn State University.
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