Matan – 4/5/10 – AIDS Walk Volunteer Center
On april 5th, I went with everyone in my group to the AIDS Walk volunteer center. We were sat down at one table, being the 3rd and only kid-group there. There were three stacks of paper that each of us had to put in envelopes to ive to the people who will participate in the AIDS Walk. One paper had information about the AIDS Walk, another was an ad and the last was a fill-out sheet. I was surprised that there was even more paper work for people to distribute. I did not know that there was a whole envelope distributed, and not just one ad given, and you suddenly show up to the walk. There is more to it. I could now see why it took so long to prepare for the AIDS Walk. It’s not all year round, but they do work several months. They make posters, organize paperwork, organize boxes, recruit volunteers, etc. There is a lot to do, and why shouldn’t there be? This is quite an important issue. Scientists haven’t come up with the remedy yet, but they are still working on it.
Something that bothered me a little bit was the amount of volunteers each time I visited. There were only two groups (on average) that came to the AIDS Walk volunteer center other than us. I was disappointed that there were not many people in the room that took up the whole floor. One would think that more people would volunteer for such an important issue. But on the bright side, that eased the food funding when people came to volunteer.There was good food, an open, calm space, and everyone was quite relaxed and happy nothing like the regular office environment, except for the one in the show. I that that was quite nice.