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Inviting Environmental Awareness Through Small, Sustainable Acts: Medical Students Impacting the Community
Summary
Medical students in a developing country initiated small environmental awareness projects in underserved communities, including waste management education. The paper documents how grassroots community engagement by students can drive local behavior change around plastic pollution.
Impacting the community does not always mean creating exponential growth, it can also mean bringing small and sustainable changes to improve people’s quality of life. Living in a developing country, we had a first-hand experience of seeing life in underprivileged communities. This experience expanded our desire to serve communities around us. However, due to the emergence of COVID-19 in Indonesia, most of the plans to contribute to our community were halted. Strict outbreak control measures, which restricted people’s mobility, prohibited visits to these underprivileged communities.
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