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Home Community Journal Community News ANCOP North America Walk for the Poor Set for Aug. 28 & 29

ANCOP North America Walk for the Poor Set for Aug. 28 & 29

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The ANCOP North America Walk for the Poor is set to take place on Aug. 28 across the United States and on Aug. 29 in Toronto, Canada.

The three-mile walk is being held to raise funds for ANCOP’s Child Sponsorship Program, project that sends poor Filipino children to elementary, high school or college level for free.

ANCOP stands for Answering the Cry of the Poor. It is a Christian based organization founded by the global movement Couples for Christ in 1994 whose main mission is to help the poor in the Philippines.

The Walk in New Jersey/New York area will be at Palisades Interstate Park in Alpine, NJ and will start at 7:00 A.M.

The following are the other Walk sites across the U.S. Chino Hills, Milpitas, Sta. Clarita and Vallejo, California. Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay, Florida. Atlanta, Georgia. Streamwood, Illinois. Baltimore and Oxon Hill, Maryland. Raleigh, North  Carolina. Houston, Texas. Virginia Beach, Virginia.   

 In Canada, the Walk will be held in different dates: Calgary (9/21) , Edmonton (8/21), Ft. McMurray (9/11), Montreal (8/28), Ottawa (8/21), Toronto (8/29), Vancouver (8/14), Victoria (8/21) and Winnipeg (8/21).

For particulars, please visit www.ancopusa.org or www.ancopwalk.ca

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