The 12th annual Walk to End Genocide will be held Sunday in the Fairfax district, a fundraising effort to support Jewish World Watch’s programs benefiting conflict-affected communities.
The group’s projects benefiting from the walk include sending medical supplies to civilians trapped behind enemy lines in Syria.
The walk also raises funds to teach new farming techniques to Darfuris who remain in refugee camps since fleeing a genocide in Sudan that began 15 years ago and relief projects for the Rohingya who have been displaced as they flee ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Registration for the walk begins at 9 a.m. in Pan Pacific Park and the walk at 10:15 a.m.
Jewish World Watch is an Encino-based group founded in 2004 that has raised millions of dollars in an effort to improve the lives of survivors of genocide and mass atrocities in Congo, South Sudan and Syria as well as the Darfuris and Rohingya.