Community Service Impact Project by Man Dang (Student FVHS)

From Instagram: The community service we will do is FHVS Project Vietnam's "Skin Cancer Screening".

mgdang100 — 2024-05-01 19:28:46 UTC

FVHS Project Vietnam is the organization for this service.

This project we are doing is a skin cancer screening. It is an event between VACF and Orange Coast Medical Center to help out with their skin cancer screening. This interests us because we want to be more helpful to everyone and the community. It is also an opportunity to grow as a person and to better understand the world around us. Bring people good health and take care of them by helping people screen for skin cancer.

Day by Day/ Week by Week Steps

mgdang100 — 2024-05-03 19:30:43 UTC

April 23, 2024: Through the research, we found some good projects:

FV Kiwin's "Cox Spring Fling"
Fvhsprojectvietnam "OC vision walk"
Fvhsprojectvietname "Viet book fest"
Fvhsprojectvietnam "little Saigon cleanup"

April 25, 2024: We planned to do FV Kiwin's "Cox Spring Fling" as we set up obstacles (2 pm-4 pm) and blowing balloon animals (2 pm-4 pm).

April 26, 2024: No one in our group could make it, so we decided to find another community service. We found a skin cancer screening on May 5th on Sunday.

May 5, 2024: We arrived at the hospital and joined the staff.

What We Plan To Do On Sunday:

cwpham100 — 2024-05-03 20:58:22 UTC

Wear comfortable clothing
Wear closed shoes
bring a phone and camera to take pictures
parents will drive us
Once we get to the hospital to listen to the instructor's directions
guide the patient to the room
Help as many patients as we can
set up and clean the room
make copies for the patient
Help with whatever requests they need
Helpers were the board members

Nikita's experience

mgdang100 — 2024-05-13 02:18:03 UTC

Nikita' Connections

mgdang100 — 2024-05-13 02:48:24 UTC

My first connection is how I was struggling at first to attend community service due to my health issues. Just like how William in "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" struggled to find his materials because if he didn't find the materials, he couldn't achieve his goal. And if I can’t make it to the service, I can't do this assignment either and that means I will fail this class. The second connection is how William inspired me to hard working. I was running back and forth to guide the patients because a lot of people came at that time. I even offered them water and stuff even though that's not even my role.

Instagram Story (Social Media post)

cwpham100 — 2024-05-13 06:02:22 UTC

role:

Nikita Dang & Chelsea Pham: Their roles were setting up the chairs for the conference, then waiting outside at the elevator and/or in front of the room to direct the patients to whatever room, and to help with whatever questions they have.
An Nguyen: Her role is to get the patient into the waiting room for the doctor. She will put a health record in front of each room so that when the doctor comes in, he can see what is going on with the patient. Lastly, she must set up the room before the patient goes in and after they go out.
Quynh Ngo: Her role is copying their patient record. When the patient is done with the doctor, they will give the health record to her to make a copy of it which they could save their profile.

An’s connections

adnguyen161 — 2024-05-13 15:58:25 UTC

The book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" has a connection with our community service. In the book, because of the famine, people die and start to have a disease. But Malawi has poor conditions for people to go to the hospital which causes people to die. It's pitiful for the people there jút because the family doesn't have the conditions.

Our community service event was helping tons of people who have a poor condition like people in Malawi. It was a free checking of skin cancer for our citizens which helps them to know about their health before it gets worse.

In both stories, it teaches us to take action to achieve a change for our communities. William had created a windmill for the village to get a better life and our community service helps people stay healthy and have a good life. And lastly, I think that our inspiration should be shared with more people to make a BIG change to support our community, especially in a hard time. when you already made a positive change, you will feel really proud that you have done something good for your community.

Quynh's connections

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 00:08:06 UTC

The book "Animal Farm" and VACF both have a vision. The vision of Old Major is a world where animals exist without man and the vision of VACF is "a healthy and happy community where everyone has access to fair and just opportunities to thrive. To carry out a vision, there needs to be a plan. In this project, we all worked together as a team, doing different jobs with the common goal of helping and getting patients conveniently screened for cancer. This is similar to how the animals in the "Animal Farm" book rebelled and overthrew the farm owner who did not feed them at the beginning of the story. The "Animal Farm" book has Seven Commandments which are rules they have to follow. My job also has its own rules. If I print the wrong structure or size, I must immediately put them in a trash can with a lock specifically for them because there is patient information that cannot be leaked on those papers.

Quynh's final reflection

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 00:54:02 UTC

I volunteered because this year I wrote an essay about cancer screening and I knew the consequences of cancer, so I wanted to help the community. I felt proud of myself because I got to make a difference. Sometimes, the printer was broken and I could not do my job. I had to wait about 10 to 15 minutes for the printer to work again. I learned that if there are signs of cancer, you should go get checked immediately because while doing my work, the ladies working there talked to a patient. She shared that when her daughter showed signs of illness, she did not go for a check-up immediately. Then, her illness became worse and she had to be hospitalized.

An's final reflection

adnguyen161 — 2024-05-14 02:33:25 UTC

Doing this community service like skin cancer screening makes me feel I have just done something to save people's lives from cancer. This event aims to make people stay healthy, often at health check-ups to know what's going on with our health. Throughout this community service, I could feel that people around me were nice and friendly. The doctors appreciate my volunteering at the hospital. The patients talk to me about how nowadays, teenagers start to care about those things that make them happy and everyone respects me. However, there is an obstacle during this project I'm a really shy girl and it is hard for me to step out of my safety zone. So experiencing these new things is quite interesting for me, especially since I have to interact with many other people I have never met before. Overall, I also have learned a lesson from this project that we must together help people around us and be conscious of protecting our health. When I see those sick people, I feel sad for them because they don't know lots of information, and they are also ignorant about their health which leads to this cancer. So after this, I gradually learned how to use sunscreen when going out and I also want to convey this message to more people.

Quynh's experience

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 02:37:41 UTC

Nikita is showing the patients where to go

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 02:39:46 UTC

This is Quynh making copies for patients

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 02:40:22 UTC

An is setting up the health record of the patient for the doctor

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 02:40:42 UTC

Chelsea also guided the patient into the conference room or waiting room.

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 02:41:14 UTC

This is also Chelsea

qngo100 — 2024-05-14 02:41:41 UTC

This is a group photo with a doctor at the end of the event

adnguyen161 — 2024-05-14 02:45:38 UTC

4 of us before the event started

adnguyen161 — 2024-05-14 02:49:04 UTC

Nikita's Final Reflection

mgdang100 — 2024-05-14 02:54:57 UTC

I chose to do this community service because I find this service is in someway related to my future career as, a psychologist. See everyone was chatting about the event pretty fun to me. I felt happy because I helped a lot of people and they were smiling at me and thanked me for helping them. That made my day! After the event, I learned that being patient and helping people is away to make your day better!

Chelsea's Experience

cwpham100 — 2024-05-14 02:59:40 UTC

Chelsea's Connection

cwpham100 — 2024-05-14 03:00:02 UTC

I wanted to do this experience because a quote from the book, “The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind”, that he says in the TED talk, “I tried, and I made it”. He made his dream possible and I thought if I want to work in the hospital in the future, why not try to see if you like it by volunteering but though it is not easy like that I still had fun as I had my friends with me. I was inspired by the boy to try things even though people judge you or don’t believe in you but as long as you believe yourself you can try it and make it and I wanted to learn from at least helping the patients because I like helping people, it’s one of the many things that make me happy.

Chelsea's Final Reflection

cwpham100 — 2024-05-14 03:00:14 UTC

I wanted to do this service because it's important to me to help the community once in a while as it can be fun and you can learn from some many different things. As someone who wants to work in the medical field, I know it is important to understand your patients health and body to help them as much as possible, as cancer is very unpredictable and harmful. I even learned about 4 types of skin cancer as I listened to the presentation from the doctor to the patients. There were 4 different types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma (the most common), squamous cell carcinoma (the second most common), merkel cell carcinoma, and melanoma (one of the most serious type of skin cancer). I also heard stories of his (the doctor's) patients and to remember to put sunscreen on your ear and of course, any skin that is exposed to the sun. Honestly, when I got to the hospital I felt nervous and scared about what was going to happen and the environment around us but it was all fun because I had my friends and turns out I learned a lot and got candy and little erasers. But most importantly, I got to learn from this experience.

An Video

adnguyen161 — 2024-05-14 04:19:40 UTC