Participants enjoy a sunny walk with their dogs. (Photo by George Liu/NWAW)
The annual Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) Walk for Rice raised a record-breaking $312,000 on June 25. Over a thousand people joined this event by running or walking 2.5 miles around Seward Park — performing, donating, raising funds and volunteering to fight against the hunger. ACRS provides ethnic foods, with proceeds from the Walk, to its mostly Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) clients.
Diane Narasaki, ACRS Executive Director, and Vinod Nazareth, ACRS Board President (Photo by George Liu/NWAW)
Besides the food bank, ACRS helps AAPI immigrants, refugees, and others feed their loved ones, find jobs, gain English language and work skills, and become American citizens.