Registration for the 2010 WAMFAC™one mile walk officially closed on Saturday, July 31, 2010. We did not reach the minimum amount of registered walkers needed to feed 400 families with children in each participating municipality. 270 walkers were needed in each one of the six participating communities of Newark, Jersey City, East Orange, Elizabeth, Irvington, and Roselle, and we did not reach that number in any one of those townships.
Planning for this grassroots effort began one year ago, and we have been very successful in raising awareness about children living in poverty throughout the entire preparation process. A handful of walkers in each town will only serve to diminish the success of our awareness piece; and since we will not be able to provide food to the families with children living under the poverty level, we have decided to cancel the walk. We ask that you continue to pray for children living in poverty so that they are able to soar beyond their lack in a positive, healthy, and holistic way.
This year's WAMFAC™ (Walk-a-Mile For-a-Child) Project Initiative is a collaborative effort being sponsored for the benefit of the Feed The Children organization in addition to some of our New Jersey children living below the poverty level.
There are approximately 2,090,505 children living in New Jersey families of which 222,090 are poor living below the poverty level. The goal of WAMFAC™ Project Initiative 2010 is to heighten awareness regarding this society ill while at the same time provide some relief to its young New Jersey neighbors. We believe it does take a whole village to raise a child,and our Walk-a-Mile For-a-Child Collaboration is one way of making the trumpet sound so that the villagers hear their neighbor's cry.
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? He said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 'On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.'"(Matthew 12:36-40 (NRSV)
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But ... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'" (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
