Walk On!

As we take a moment to give thanks this week, food pantries throughout Maine have one person to be extremely thankful for. Brenda Davis, Executive Director of Cross Roads Ministries and Food Pantry, has been spending the month of November completing the Eleventh Annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour.

The Walk is an effort on the part of Maine’s credit unions and Davis to build awareness about the problem of hunger in Maine during the month of November, which has been designated as Ending Hunger month. The Walk officially began on Friday, October 26 at Maine State CU in Augusta, and will conclude with a ceremony at Changing Seasons FCU in Hampden on Friday, November 30.

Upon its completion, The Walk will have encompassed more than 1,500 miles, with approximately 700 of that on foot. Brenda will have visited a record-setting 77 communities from Kittery to Madawaska. At each of the 84 credit union branches Davis visits, she picks up a contribution from the Campaign as a way to support her cause. This year, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger has made a $111 donation to a food pantry in each of the 77 communities that Davis visits. The Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger will contribute nearly $30,000 to help end hunger through the Tour.

Thanks Brenda, for another wonderful walk!