HEAL

Please support HEAL as we partner with 4G4C and HUGS (Help Us Grow Strong) to create solutions for our local homess population. We are fundraising for a suitable environment/land to build tiny homes in areas with public transportation, job opportunities, grocery stores.
We are also collecting new winter coats and blankets to help our neighbors in need stay warm this winter.

Thank you PWCS for covering our work! We also recognize additional ENbassadors and PWCS students, Fares Elsherbiny, Malak Elsherbiny, and Rania Lateef for helping us put the kits together.

Students raise funds to aid refugees Three PWCS students and a PWCS graduate raised over $5,000 to create 275 feminine hygiene kits to aid displaced refugees located at a housing facility in Leesburg, Virginia. The items collected for refugees are part of an effort to coordinate with Operation Allies Welcome, the branch of Homeland Sec...

HEAL was extremely excited to visit Marshall Elementary School this week and share with fourth graders how the environment can have a direct impact on human health. This initiative was led by HEAL president, Arman Lateef, and vice -presidents, Mia Hicks and Sophia Qamari. We also had our amazing EN-bassadors, Fares Elsherbiny, Vivian Quint, and Layla Moussavi join us on this important mission.

In examining how environmental topics are currently covered within science curricula, HEAL leaders discovered a narrow focus on conservation and the effects of human activities on the environment, missing an opportunity to educate our youth on how the environment directly relates to their own health and well-being.

HEAL aims to revolutionize environmental education by creatively emphasizing how the environment directly impacts students’ own health, shifting the focus from being external and distant to very personal and immediate.

If you know a school or classroom that would like to have the HEAL team visit and educate their students, please contact us at https://www.heal4all.org/contact-us.

It’s ! 🌎 HEAL encourages you to take a look back at some history and alarming activities that impact our planet so can learn from past mistakes and pledge to maintain a healthier and cleaner earth!

HEAL was honored by the invitation to attend a Ramadan Engagement event with Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, head of the United States Department of Homeland Security. HEAL leaders, Hamza Arman Lateef and Sophia Qamari, along with HEAL
EN-bassador, Leena Sherdil, had the opportunity to discuss our successful campaign to raise funds and provide feminine hygiene kits to Afghan refugees. We also learned about the various efforts and organizations involved in making the refugee resettlement program as smooth as possible.

HEAL was proud to create and deliver 275 feminine hygiene kits for afghan refugees, who had recently arrived at the housing facility in Leesburg, VA. We thank our donors and community members for helping us raise over $5000 for this initiave and to our EN-bassadors, Leena and Salma Sherdil, for helping to spearhead this program. Our Vice President, Sophia Qamari, played a key role in overseeing the program as well.

HEAL was proud to partner with the Health and Wellness Committee at the Dar al Noor mosque and volunteer at their free health fair. Environmental exposures and access to health care are huge social determinants of health outcomes and HEAL was happy to share information about our I-Care program with fair attendees.

Last month HEAL members Tony Bright and Gabriel Ralston dropped off items collected during HEAL's winter clothing drive to donate to the non-profit organization Help Us Grow Strong (H.U.G.S) whose mission is to "Provide basic needs for persons experiencing homelessness while working towards affordable housing in Prince William County". In coordination and partnership with Colgan High School SCA, 4Girls4Change, and H.U.G.S. representative Annemarie Landry, HEAL was successful in collecting almost 200 items that included warm socks, winter hats, fleece pullovers, and blankets which will be given to the PWC homeless community through H.U.G.S. HEAL, Colgan SCA, 4Girls4Change, and H.U.G.S are grateful for the community’s donations to this important cause, and we hope to continue helping individuals in need.

HEAL was happy to share information regarding affordable eye care to members of the Spriggs Presbyterian Church. ENBassador Vivian Quint, who is bilingual, led this initiative and reached a largely latino audience.

Environmental health can be shaped by social factors just as much as physical ones and there are many health conditions that occur due to situational exposures, among certain demographic groups. At HEAL, we identify specific projects where communities and groups may be vulnerable to certain environmental exposures and design specific initiatives to intervene, raise awareness, and help charter a path to better outcomes.

We are proud to partner with Four Girls For Change, another studnet run community organization, and conduct a winter clothing drive for the homeless population in Prince William Community. We are grateful to HUGS (Help US Grow Strong), a local non-profit, for supporting us and helping facilitate this project.

Please consider a donation, even if it is just a pair of socks!

HEAL is happy to recognize Children's Environmental Health Day!
https://cehday.org/