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ENDING
HUNGER – acting locally and
globally
 All profits
from the Brake The Hunger Cycle Tour will be
donated to efforts to end hunger – both
locally and globally.
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Each year the profits
from our event will be directed to a
different initiative that ultimately
deals with the hungry, the poor, the
impoverished. All this is geared
toward a global initiative of over 200
countries, established at the September
2000 United Nations Millennium Summit,
with a goal of reducing extreme poverty
in half by the year 2015. World leaders
agreed to set time bound and measurable
goals and targets for combating poverty,
hunger, disease, literacy, environmental
degradation and discrimination against
women. They are now known as the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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75% of the profits will
this year’s event will go towards
projects to deliver clean water to the
peoples of Africa, a population of over one
billion people. Clean water is a
building block to the elimination of
hunger and poverty. It reduces disease
and is essential to the good health of
human beings.
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25% of the profits will
be utilized locally by donating to the
Community Food Bank of New Jersey. The recent economic downturn has
left many local people in a temporary
but very real need for assistance. This
portion of the profits will be provided
to that organization to meet these local
needs.
The Sad Facts
Half of the
world - nearly three billion people- lives
on less than two dollars a day (the cost of
a slice of pizza). The poorest forty
percent of the world's population accounts
for only five percent of global income.
According to UNICEF 26,500 to 30,000
children die each day due to poverty. And,
they "die quietly in some of the poorest
villages on earth, far removed from the
scrutiny and the conscience of the world.
Being meek and weak in life makes these
dying multitudes even more invisible in
death."
Our Efforts
St. David's
Episcopal Church of Kinnelon (www.stdavidskinnelon.org)
is well known for its Outreach efforts-its
efforts to help the less fortunate whether
they are nearby or far away in distance.
One of our many such programs is in support
of the Millennium Development Goals efforts
on behalf of ending world poverty by the
year 2015. As such it will be raising
monies through a series of events for this
purpose.
 Your
Efforts
Your
participation in our Bike Tour as either a
rider, sponsor or volunteer will be helping
the poor of this world. All of the net
profits from the event will be donated
towards this important effort.
More info on becoming a volunteer. |
