Kudos on your past walks and present, principled position on donating and soliciting donations for Komen.
I noticed a friend, who’s done several Avon walks in the past, didn’t participate this year. Do you know if the Avon Walk is affiliated with or separate from Komen and PP?
I actually did go and research Avon. I like them better. If you go to their websites they have links to all the people to whom they give the money. Most seem to be for research which is how Komen started out. Komen messed up when they shifted over to early detection and community outreach. There are some good free mamogram clinics which are probably there because of Komen but what happened with PP was that PP said, we have lots of women coming to us, give us vouchers for the clinics that still charge and we’ll give them to the women. And it is true that PP in some rural areas are the go to place for birth control and these vouchers. That was the camel’s nose under the tent.
I signed up for Avon but the only walk I was able to train for was in October and then my husband and I decided to go to Italy instead.
Komen has this huge community and Avon isn’t that big - yet.