By Shelisa Sergio and Layla Zedd
Starting off the 2024 school year, many students create new clubs to bring people together in a topic they’re interested in. All the clubs are introduced at the Club Fair, where students see all the different clubs, learn more about them, and join.
Among all the clubs is Hope for Health, which educates students about different health conditions to raise awareness and provides workshops where students can do hands-on activities and learn basic medical skills. On that note, what inspired the founding of this club?
Sophomore founder and president Grace Liu said, “I have scoliosis, and I’ve dealt with people not being aware of what it was, or people just making misconceptions of it, and I knew that other people also struggle with medical conditions where people don’t understand what they’re going through.”
Being a Hope for Health officer means having a passion for learning and teaching anything related to the medical field to other students who are interested. The club is also significant for students who want to bring change and understanding to overlooked medical conditions.
“My biggest goal out of this club is to do interactive workshops in high school and middle school, maybe even elementary schools to teach people not only about medical conditions but how to treat them,” Liu said.
Club Fair was a success for Hope for Health, capturing the attention of multiple students and gaining new enthusiastic members.
“I don’t know much about it. I haven’t heard of it until the Club Fair and so far, I think it’s really cool. I think it’s really fun, very hands-on, very interesting, very chill,” club member Junior Serrano said.
This club isn’t just for students interested in the medical route; anyone is welcome to learn and gain new knowledge whether they want to pursue medicine or not. The hands-on activities and skills learned may be useful holistically in the future.
“It sounded super interesting. My mom is a nurse, so I don’t know. I don’t really want to take off in that direction, but I thought it’d be fun,” said junior member Celeste Serrano.
Through medical lessons, hands-on activities, and peer interactions, Hope for Health plans to provide a helping hand for everyone.
“I wanted to spread awareness while teaching people how to combat these medical issues, or learn how to be a medical provider,” President Liu said.
