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Humanity First Student Organizations: a busy summer to an exciting back to school season

Summer Highlights

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In June, student-led The Education Project received funds from the City of Toledo for a summer program at Keyser Elementary School. The program gave 30 students extra academic support to prepare for the next school year.

Also in June, a team from Northville High School in Michigan spoke about the Humanity First Student Division (HFSD) and Gift of Health medical missions at June’s HFUSA Dinner in Detroit!

A man hands a young girl a travel sized tube of toothpaste. She also holds a toothbrush she selected from a display of brushes of many colors on the table between them.

The July Gift of Health mission led by the Loyola University HFSO treated 385 people in southern Mexico for general health, dental health, and chronic conditions. Children were given free dental care products like toothpaste.

The annual Humanity First Student Division Leadership Summit was held at the University of Michigan in August

Humanity First students from across the USA convened at the University of Michigan to attend the 4th HFSD Leadership Summit. This year, 65 students from 18 active Humanity First Student Organizations (HFSOs) shared their experiences with peers and pitched their ideas to the HFUSA leadership.

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The agenda was packed. Leadership workshop sessions led by exemplary HFSOs - University of Toledo, Northville High School, Loyola University & Binghamton University - gave students ideas and inspiration for the upcoming school year. Students assembled 200+ care kits for the homeless in Michigan, organized by the HFSO at Michigan State University. A panel of HF students who have joined Gift of Health medical missions shared their experiences on these trips.

Mujeeb Ijaz, founder of Our Next Energy and Chief Development Officer HFUSA, and Adeel Malik, founder of Clearstep and founder of the pioneer HFSO at UMD, provided detailed feedback and insight on student Shark Tank proposals and research presentations.

Disaster response training was led by the HFSO at UToledo College of Medicine for students to practice CPR, blood pressure monitoring, and basic wound care.

A woman demonstrates how to put on a blood pressure cuff and read the measurement on a man standing next to her.

Young men stand in a row. In front of them on a ledge are mannequins of human torsos. Two men practice CPF while others encourage them.

Two women wearing hijab sit next to each other. One has a stethoscope around her neck and puts a blood pressure cuff on the others arm.

Two young men stand outside wearing dress shirts. One is putting gauze around the others outstretched arm. A third man wearing medical scrubs watches and directs.

Rogelio Martinez, leader of HF-UToledo College of Medicine (UTCOM)

“I was introduced to [Humanity First] by the executive board members over at HF-UTCOM. And not only through them but also through the disaster response training course I did back in September of last year, this really solidified my belief in Humanity First and how they truly want to serve as many people as they can.”

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Daaniyah Mirza, Treasurer of the HFSO at Loyola University Chicago

"I was really looking for a space where I would be able to continue to remember the reason why I want to go into medicine. And that is the patients. Through the Gift of Health trip I felt like I really found a spot where that is the focus, and everything that you do is connected to finding a way for our actions to better impact the world.”

🎉 We welcome all Humanity First Student Organizations established in 2024 to this amazing group 🎉

University of Florida (FL)
Springbrook High School (MD)
Michigan State University (MI)
Wayne State University (MI)
Siena College (NY)
Rutgers University (NJ)
Randolph High School (NJ)
Stow-Munroe Falls High School (OH)
University of Texas at Dallas (TX)
University of Houston (TX)
Allen High School (TX)
Academies of Loudoun (VA)

Coming up!

Three Gift of Health student medical missions are already scheduled for the months ahead. They will be helping patients in Guatemala and Belize in December, and Mexico in January (medical professionals, leads are still needed for Belize and Mexico if you can volunteer!)

Students, learn more about these trips on our managed missions page

Medical professionals: email Doctors4Humanity

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Thank you, Humanity First Students.

We are wishing you a great start to the new school year!

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