-Ron Lapitan, Former Community Outreach Coordinator
When the Center for Health and Human Rights first developed our high school program, which empowers teams of students to create their own service projects to solve health problems they notice in their community, we expanded by outreaching to teachers and administrators to explain our vision. Increasingly, it is students themselves from schools where we have not yet started the program who are arising to initiate it.
Like Aravindan, president of the Biology Club at Southlakes High School, who contacted me this summer to ask if their group could take on the program so they could apply their theoretical knowledge to create practical change in the community.
Also Aundia and Sogand from Virginia Commonwealth University who posted a question to their classmates in their school’s Facebook pages: “What would you change in our community if you had the power?” Their questions have sparked numerous responses from students passionate about problems such as homelessness in their area, whom they will now invite to become a Health as Right team.
We are also beginning to expand to different states through students such as Jackson from Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida, who is bringing together a group of friends passionate about service to form a team. The image is the poster they made for Club Rush Week, when the clubs talk with new students about their activities.
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
-Anonymous
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