WABI covers Healthy High, sexual assault awareness walk
WABI (Channel 5) reported on the 11th annual Healthy High 5k/10k and 1-mile run/walk at the University of Maine. Several participants in the 1-mile run/walk wore red high heels, as part of the international “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” campaign. At UMaine, the walk is spearheaded by the student group Male Athletes Against Violence (MAAV) to symbolize challenges of being a woman in society and to raise awareness about sexual and other violence against women. “This is a big issue in our society nowadays and to be able to have people supporting it, it’s a really satisfying feeling,” said UMaine student Justin Hafner. “We aren’t doing this for ourselves,” added UMaine student-athlete Jean Point Du Jour. “We are doing it for our future daughters, our moms, just women in general. It feels good just to stand for something more than ourselves.”