Assisting the World

By Alessia Vu

Are you aware of our world's environment you clearly live in everyday?

Every hour, minute, second, litter could be entering our oceans or laying around our school grounds. Have you seen the amount of junk increasing per day? Janitors would clean up the mess that we people, ourselves, create with little care at all. 

Though it’s not always about the environment but also, ourselves. So, the true question being:

How do you help out the world?

Perhaps you do or don’t. There are tons of people like that such as people who assist or leave the problem be, you are not alone. It’s efficient to have a stable globe and that’s why the SDG club is there to set a good example of how they can ameliorate the world. 

The SDG club, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals, primarily focuses on seventeen UN goals that would support our world, on which is climate change, health, zero hunger, and more. One of the co-presidents, Bao Tran Le who is currently a sophomore, shares her idea of what the club does for a living.

Le: We’re trying to conserve and like, sustain, used those goals to sustain our world like to help to preserve it, like make it greener, or like to help with poverty and all of those stuff.

Before, it wasn’t originally about SDG specifically but rather an environmental club in general that had only aspects of the environment itself. In this case, SDG actually focuses on ALL aspects of the world and not just one. 

With another co-president, Stella Do who is another Sophomore, they had both wanted something that was related to AP human geography.

(Tran and Stella)

Le: At first it was just an environmental club that contains like different environmental activities but then we kinda wanted to expand it more so there would be more events.

When creating the club with Stella, Le felt a mix of nervousness and excitement as she had tons of event ideas. Some of them being: planting trees or donating to the homeless to reduce poverty. Although, something stopped her personally.

Le: Something that I learned is that it's very very hard to find people that have the same interest as you and how to cooperate with your club cabinet.

She also felt a pang of anxiety other than finding that it was problematic to find people with similar interests.

Le: I’m also scared because some events need to be approved by ASB and some events are not able to be carried out due to circumstances.

On the other hand, there were a few main achievements that Le aimed for. One of them being displaying their best efforts to help conserve the planet. She hoped to find more people to join that see their club the way she and the others did. 

Being part of the club would help others see how AP human geography concepts are put into the world and understand how it works as if it's something they can relate to.

Le: They can learn and see how we can create a better, well, a more sustainable place for the world and how all these projects is to fund in its own way.

If you were an aphg (abbreviation for AP human geography) student, that would be even better.

Le: You get a bit more adventures to experience what most of the things you learned about…. It’s like few work.

As the co-president of the SDG that is actually a new club this year, Le plans to bring unity as she wants to not only guide the club together but have opinions that they can all equally agree on.

Le: SDG is, what people see is, a sustainable club but in the same time, it's also a fun club where you get to learn new things.

Depending on how well they all do, the club’s future would be determined later on. With the helping hand of the SDG club, we are one step closer to recovering humankind.

(Stella with Tran and Savina Garcia, treasurer of SDG)