In recognition of Hunger Awareness Month, an Old Town woman walked through Windham last week on her annual pilgrimage to end hunger in Maine.

Brenda Davis, a 59-year-old food pantry manager from Old Town who is passionate about helping Mainers pick themselves up financially, is walking through Maine visiting 69 credit unions in 52 towns throughout the month of November. With each credit union she visits, the Maine Credit Union League has agreed to donate $100 to the Campaign for Ending Hunger.

“I’m walking to raise awareness that there’s a huge issue in Maine revolving around hunger and food insecurity. It exists. People are making choices between food, rent and prescriptions,” Davis said while standing outside the Evergreen Credit Union in North Windham last Thursday.

Davis hopes her walk will encourage people to donate to local food pantries. Davis runs Crossroads Ministry in Old Town, which operates a food pantry, thrift shop and youth education program.

“Our goal is to empower people to become stable citizens and self-sufficient,” she added.

This year marks Davis’s sixth walking tour of Maine. She said she’s healthier than she was last year when she was suffering from a foot injury.

“We’re doing well this year. All the hotels have been donated. Today we stopped by the Cumberland Federal Credit Union in Falmouth and a woman from the Falmouth Food Pantry walked with me for a while. That was very uplifting,” Davis said.

Davis’s walking tour started Oct. 30 at the State House in Augusta and will wrap up at the Maine Credit Union League in Westbrook Nov. 29. In between, Davis and her support crew will visit every credit union in Maine, from the Northeast Credit Union at the Naval Shipyard in Kittery to Acadia Federal Credit Union in Fort Kent and DownEast Credit Union in Calais.