More than 80 community members participated in the 2nd Annual Wareham Walk for Hunger on Sunday. The event has raised roughly $2,100 thus far for Project Bread, which provides funding to food pantries and soup kitchens throughout the state.

Wareham's walk coincided with Boston's annual Walk for Hunger.

"We're hoping every year we'll grow and get bigger," said the Rev. Diane Badger of the Community Baptist Church of Marion, who coordinated the event with the Rev. Dan Bernier of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Wareham.

Last year's event brought 49 walkers and raised $2,500. Walkers have until June 1 to turn in this year's donations. Badger said she was thrilled with the turn-out and anticipates a much bigger donation to Project Bread this year.

Among the walkers were Selectman Walter Cruz, who attends the Community Baptist Church and was back for his second year. Tabor Academy students also bused down for the cause.

"It's fun," said Tabor Academy freshman Holly Francis. "We thought it'd be a nice way to support the community."

The event will always be held on the same date as Boston's Walk for Hunger. Badger said the five-mile loop, which begins at the Church of the Good Shepherd on High Street, follows Sandwich Road to the Emmanuel Church of the Nazarene, and then heads down Depot Street to Minot Avenue and back to the Church of the Good Shepherd, is appealing to many who cannot drive the hour to Boston and participate in the 20-mile Walk for Hunger.

"Hunger knows no geographic boundaries. It's everywhere," said Badger, pointing out that Wareham food pantries were visited 42,000 times last year. "Forty-two thousand times, people had a concern about where their next meal was coming from."

Pat Probert, who coordinates Good Shepherd's Table, the Church of the Good Shepherd's soup kitchen, said the Project Bread donation will go a long way.

"It goes to help lots and lots of needy people," she said. Good Shepherd's Table receives $1,500 per year from Project Bread. Since 2006, the kitchen has served 80,000 meals.

The Wareham Clergy Association and St. Vincent De Paul also helped out with the event. We will provide an update when all the donations have been tallied!