A21 Walk

Just to preface my essay, I sincerely enjoy helping the community. I have already signed up for Habitat for Humanity in Boston for next semester as well as am looking into a community action project in local Boston schools on the weekends. However, Greek volunteerism so far seems, as stated in class, very non-existent. Hence, it almost makes sense why this walk was incompetently organized. Nonetheless, here is my own opinion of the community action project from last weekend:
Nothing could compare to how little I felt the A21 walk achieved. Firstly, walks are meant to provide awareness to the community by allowing particular areas to contribute to the cause by physical movement. Most of the time, walks are utilized as a way to get funds flowing to the organization. Although A21 tried to use the walk to diffuse their message that we as a community need to stand up to human trafficking, it did very little to serve this purpose. By covering my face in the name of “Amy” a quote-on-quote rescued victim, I was becoming apart of a group of people who
I felt the A21 organization had a good concept at hand but poorly executed the entirety of the situation. A21’s mission is the raise general consciousness of human trafficking and help its victims but it lacks a crucial key to this: successful awareness campaigns. After doing some research, it seems that the organization did a poor job in allowing the walk to have an online presence. Few media outlets reported on the walk, and even if they did most had little evidence or facts to carry their articles. The only article I could find by a reputable news source is listed below, and contains only 11 sentences. This astounding lack of representation within the news displays how walks like A21’s does little to benefit the cause they are trying to support. Consequently, one of A21’s many challenges is the ability to raise retention of human trafficking within the world's