Photo by Westwood Minute/Darlene Wong Cancell. Participants in the Interfaith Mini Walk for Hunger included members of houses of faith and residents from Westwood and beyond.
Despite a grey sky and lightly falling rain, about fifty community members gathered to walk through the neighborhood around Westwood's Temple Beth David, participating the 13th annual Interfaith Mini Walk for Hunger, a fundraiser to benefit Project Bread, the statewide anti-hunger organization.
Event co-organizers Connie Rizoli and Dr. Jeff Greenwald of Temple Beth David had announced that the walk would go on, rain or shine, because the problem of hunger doesn't stop with a change in the weather.
The crowd was reduced from the previous year, but by the beginning of the event, dedicated members of the community had already raised over $10,000 for the cause of addressing food insecurity. A final tabulation of the donations had not yet been made at the end of the event, as donations have continued to come in.