Little Wings
~ About Us ~
Our names are Summer Huang and Gianna Meisner. We’ve known each other since middle school from playing soccer and we work well together. With the two of us combined, we produce ideas full of creativity and consideration to help come up with solutions that can have an impact while also educating.
~ Our Community Need ~
We decided to focus on the topic of child mortality. We chose this topic because it is an important issue that we feel is not spoken about a lot and because of that, people don’t know and aren’t able to understand the severity of it. Child mortality is a worldwide problem with around 14,000 deaths every day. One of the main factors is that people are not educated enough in the medical field to be able to prevent things going wrong which leads to infant deaths. Our hope is to educate people around us to be able to become aware of the issues and the solutions to help this worldwide problem become more known which can implement change amongst those who have the higher power in the medical fields. Child mortality needs to be more known and talked about in order for a change to happen. With a change, the rates of infant deaths will go down with the proper knowledge and solutions to allow people to become more aware and realize what their job is to help bring these rates down for good, especially in those lower-income areas where this problem is the most prominent.
~ Project Goals & Progress ~
Our project goal is to educate our school and the community around us on the importance of knowing the causes and how to prevent child and infant mortality. By having conversations and meetings with our partner, Dr. Weiseth, we hope to also learn new things ourselves and potentially learn and figure out a way for us to independently help implement change in our community. Since we don’t necessarily have the power to be able to change the way the medical field works, we thought our best bet would be to educate others. Our project plan is to create button pins with our butterfly logo on them (butterflies symbolize infant loss) and hand them out to the school to help raise awareness on this topic along with cards with information and our Instagram to teach our community as well. For the Community Celebration, we are going to have a tub full of rubber ducks with 4 different colored bottoms that correlate to a fact that we are going to have the visitors read aloud to help educate.
Here is a pile of some of the pins we created by hand!
filtered-66F561B1-94D0-4070-8130-A94F0F3F753D.mp4We utilized our library's resources and used a Cricut to print out and write what we needed to put on our info cards!
This is our finished product with the completed card and the pin attached!
Our pins in the Library!
School Counseling!
Mr. Lack's Art Room!
~ Community Partnership ~
We have chosen to partner with Ariadne Labs, specifically Amber Weiseth, to help implement our project. Amber is a research scientist at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management and is also the director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) at Ariadne Labs, where she oversees the works of the Team Birth Project, which is a care process designed to improve the safety, dignity, and equity of childbirth. Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Working with her and learning about what she does will give us insight into where the gaps are in the lack of education and knowledge about this problem and where to focus to get the attention of others to help us implement a change for this problem.
~ Our Social Media ~
Instagram: @hhs.little_wings
Partnership website: https://www.ariadnelabs.org/profile/amber-weiseth/