NAMI - Boise Walk October 3, 2009

This year I volunteered at the NAMI - Boise Walk. It was two weeks before mom's memorial and this is one way that I felt that I could honor her memory. I am actually hoping that our family will all be able to walk at different NAMI events over the next year.

I helped greet participants and direct them to the right lines for registering and signing in. As much as I really wanted to just sleep in that morning I got up and headed out the door and for once I remembered my camera. So I thought that since a picture is worth a 1000 words I would just post some of the pictures I took at the walk. I took over 100 pictures but here are a couple of my favorites.


The Start and Finish Line before everyone arrived:

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t-shirts for volunteers

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Signs patiently waiting for their walkers.

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The Idaho Steelheads were there to start the walk off right...

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...and high-five the walkers as they finished.

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A couple of cuties that were out enjoying the day.

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I really enjoyed being out there for this walk and look forward to finding more ways I can help NAMI. I talked to a couple of other volunteers and they were all volunteering because a member of their family had mental illness. If I had thought about it that day I would have interviewed a couple of the walkers but at the time I hadn't decided on my research essay.