2012 Community Service Grant Recipient

Below is a submission by our 2012 Community Service Grant Recipient:

"My name is Stephanie and I am the Chief Executive Assistant for FISH (Fellowship for International Service & Health). I am also a member of ALD|PES, and I applied for the Community Service Grant on behalf of FISH last year. As a freshman at UCLA, I was fortunate enough to find two awesome student organizations dedicated to community service, Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society and FISH (Fellowship for International Service and Health). FISH is a completely student-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded at UCLA. Every other Saturday, we send three cars full of our trained members to a small village in Mexico called Maclovio Rojas, and we set up a free health clinic in a local marketplace. Our members perform BMI calculation, blood pressure, and other clinical services, as well as give consultations to provide health advice and free medications and vitamins. We are consistently looking to expand the efficacy and variety of services we can offer the people of Maclovio Rojas, which of course, requires funding. In that search, I reached out to the officers of ALD|PES and applied for a Community Service Grant I heard about through email. When I met with the officers in person, they were so enthusiastic about FISH's mission and what they could do to help out. The money graciously provided by ALD|PES was put towards a large clinic trip during the Spring called "La Clinica." In addition to the regular services we offer, we were able to bring down a physician to perform additional check-ups and prescriptions. On behalf of everyone in FISH and the people of Maclovio Rojas, I'd like to sincerely thank ALD|PES for their contribution towards our work."