Austin High AIDS Project Day
Dec 16
HIV and AIDS, Student Action Austin High, World AIDS Day No Comments
Students at Austin High raise awareness of HIV and AIDS on World AIDS Day
More than a year ago, I received an email from Juhi Tariq, a Global Studies major at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Juhi was working on creating a year long community service project and wanted to start a Global Concerns club at one of the local Austin high schools. After a lot of hard work and planning, she received the Brown Scholarship at St. Edward’s and GCC was brought to Austin High School!
This fall, high school students have been meeting to learn about various global issues and to brainstorm ways in which they can take action. The Austin High Aids Project day was an idea put together by the students Justin Couture, Leah Williams, and Austin Anderson. To celebrate World AIDS day on Dec 1st, students set up an AIDS Day Booth outside the cafeteria for their peers to see on their extended lunch. They shared Global Concerns’ HIV and AIDS guide to students passing by to get them interested and also took donations and encouraged students to buy some of the few t-shirts that were produced.
As Juhi described, “My main goal for the year long project is to foster inspiration and motivation within high school students who may not feel like they can make a difference to do something more with their lives. This was the first year Austin High has acknowledged World AIDS day in this way and it encouraged them to continue the tradition in years to come. This was a good way to get students talking about an issue that they otherwise might not be exposed to in their immediate community.”
Amazing job to the Global Concerns club members at Austin High and to Juhi and St. Edward’s students for their efforts to bring global citizenship to Austin high schools!
