Fwd: Interested in poverty and health? - Join Health Leads!
Tarina Quraishi
Health Leads (formerly known as Project HEALTH)
Mobilizing the nation's undergrads to break the link between poverty and poor health
“I love the work we do…It is so fantastic to feel like you are making a real difference in someone's life.
Two hours of my life could translate to a family getting $200 in food stamps or not getting their heat turned off.”
With Health Leads, you become an integral part of health care in this country.
You work with families that struggle to make ends meet.
You help mothers and kids put food on the table, find employment, and prevent homelessness.
You see real results.
Doctors depend on us to address the non-medical needs that impact child health.
We depend on you to revolutionize what health care means in this country.
You are someone who wants to fight inner-city poverty and health disparities.
You care about social services, public policy, health care, and people.
You can commit at least 6 hours a week a semester.
You are Health Leads.
Join the movement!
Applications are due WEDNESDAY, 2/6 at 5:00pm
Information sessions:
SUNDAY, 2/3 at 2:00pm in Quincy Levesque Room (at the back of Quincy D-hall)
Request an application today!
Email har...@healthleadsusa.org with “Harvard Application” in the subject line and your first and last name in the email body. You will be sent a link to the online application system.
For more information about us, the experience, and the application:
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From fellow volunteers:
“It has really changed the way I look at the world - it has made me deeply passionate about issues of poverty and society. I’ve gained so much insight and life skills that I will carry on for the rest of my life - it has been such a formative experience.”
“These personal relationships with clients, this dedication of a small group of students to people in our community is really a beautiful and rare gift.”
“Every [meeting], every shift, I walk away wanting to be more like the awesome, awesome people I get to work with each week.”
From a doc at the Boston Medical Center:
“Health Leads is a part of our team. I can’t do it all. The one social worker we have can’t do it all. The Health Leads volunteers...are an exceptional group of human beings that make me proud of humanity.”
From Michelle Obama:
Health Leads "is exactly the kind of social innovation and entrepreneurship we should be encouraging all across this country,"
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