Faces in the Crowd: CROP Hunger Walk 2009

Photo gallery by Mark Bialek for AnnArbor.com

Hundreds of walkers turned out Sunday for the 35th annual CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) Walk for Hunger in Ann Arbor to raise money to fight hunger locally and around the globe.

CROP Walks are held around the country at varying times of the year and are organized by Church World Services, a U.S.-based non-profit with an international reach. Participants solicit pledges (which can be done on-line now) from family and friends to raise funds.

A quarter of the funds raised Sunday will remain within Washtenaw County, and will be divided among eight agencies. The rest will be given to international relief agencies that work in some of the poorest corners of the world, including Pakistan, Haiti and Malawi.