CROP Walk

The Hunger Initiative and the Social Action Committee invite you to participate in the Champaign-Urbana CROP walk on Sunday, April 22nd, at University Place Christian Church in Champaign; walk begins at 2:00pm This is a community-wide walk to raise funds for hunger-fighting organizations. Participants sign up to walk in advance, and then collect pledges. Or if you don't want to walk, you can donate to the UU walking team, or sponsor an individual who is walking. To join the walk or to donate to the UU walking team, come to the CROP walk table after each of the services on upcoming Sundays in March and April, or you can contact Nancy Dietrich atnancydietrich@juno.com/337-0334 or Sandy Hannum at hannum1@illinois.edu

Butterfly Garden is a Hit!

While the Green UUs were cleaning the butterfly garden this week, Maya and I found a monarch chrysalis.  Good to know the garden is getting good use.  Danaus plexippus is the state insect of the State of Illinois.  

April Shared Offering: Four Walls and a Roof

Four Walls and a Roof is a non-governmental organization working in collaboration with La Coordinadora de Mujeres Urbanas, a grassroots feminist organization in Cotacachi, Ecuador. Together, we seek to improve resources and services for women and children living in violence (domestic, interpersonal, and state-sanctioned) in the Andean region of Ecuador. Apart from general support for resources and local personnel, Four Walls and a Roof  is currently supporting the project of establishing the first battered women's shelter in the area--a facility we're working to ensure is sustainable, both environmentally and economically.Our church contributions will help support critical organizing led for women by women in Cotacachi. As a reminder, April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Four Walls and a Roof and La Coordinadora de Mujeres Urbanas work to support survivors of sexual assault and trauma.