Act of Resistance

For my act of Resistance I decided that I would help out in the community during Thanksgiving. I helped my grandmother organize and serve food from her church, but the idea was to get younger people involved with the community. There were a lot of older people helping out and usually the older people always help out every year with no help from the young people in the community. Basically on Thanksgiving we had to eat earlier than usual to help out in the church and then go around the community looking for volunteers from young people, but mainly adolescents.
After setting up the church, I and some of my family members went into the neighborhood looking for some volunteers. It was difficult finding people because everyone is with their families on Thanksgiving and not to mention the work involve serving people food. However we did come across some young teens willing to help for a good amount of time. We did end up paying some of them for their service, but I think you shouldn’t have to pay people to help their community.
Overall I think it was good experience because we got young teens involved in the community even on a holiday so the turn out could have been even better if it was on a different day. If I had to do this again I probably would, but I would choose a different act of resistance because getting people to volunteer was difficult.