As I said in my previous blog, I attended the National Public Lands Day volunteer event at Carbon Canyon Regional Park on Saturday, September 29th. It was so discouraging! Visiting the website, I was so excited about participating in such a wonderful mission, and I was sure there would have been a good crowd of volunteers. I arrived that morning to find a group of about nine girl-scouts picking weeds out of what already was a beautiful garden. Not to down-play their work, I was definitely impressed with their commitment to the project, positive attitude, and high spirits while working out in the hot sun. They were there for the right reasons. They told me themselves that they were looking for a way to give back, and this seemed a good way to do it.
Why is it that so few, as many as nine girl scouts no older than 12, were the only ones looking for a way to give back that day? Why were they the only ones that knew about this event? Some might say the lack of a turn-out could be due to bad marketing, and I can’t say I don’t agree. This event, something celebrated for 14 years now, is something that I had never heard about until about a month ago. However, maybe if I had I been looking for a way to give back sometime over the last 14 years, I may have found it a long time ago. So I guess that is what discourages me. Why is that so many people aren’t looking for a way to give back? Can we change that? If so, how?
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