Toussaint Global Health Industry

Volunteer
Volunteering is an activity that has always been part of my lifestyle, therefore when I saw the
Volunteer announcement during our class trip to the YMCA, it lead me to an
opportunity to participate in the local recreational clean up session at Little
Talbot Island (Saturday, October 24, 2015 9:00a.m 12:00 pm) . This was
significant event due to the current observation of our environments and how it
correlates to our individual migration patterns,
health disorders, and societal disputes.
Currently, globally there has been a complaint
that the proliferation of toxins, such as a high
concentration of CO2 , within both our industrialized/developed
communities, underdeveloped, and natural habitant is causing a
disruption in our ecological succession. Doing just the simple
task of collecting up trash, provided a view of some of the
possible activities and ideologies that are contributing to the pollution problems. I also further
confirmed how these issues are being brought by human behavioral pattern that is practiced all
over the world. The YMCA is a community-based facility that has been operating for years, that
focusing on all issues that pertains to the health of its community. A month later, I also
volunteered at the Marsh Fest that took place with the Timucuan Parks Foundation, at Dutton
Island Park & Preserve (Saturday, November 7, 2015 11:00am-2:00pm), which provided another
perspective on the declination of our ecosystems. It lead to the conclusion that many of us may
not comprehend that the act of sustaining, or maintaining also consist of reconstruction. Despite,
my own dilemma of completely understanding rather we are all truly experiencing the same
thing to be able to draw the same conclusions.
During these two sessions I was able to introduce myself to two of the program directors, each
from a different dividend. There was Mrs. Felicia M. Boyd,
Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation and a newly admitted UNF
Advisor. Based on the two activities this was a example of the
partnerships that are often involved in such environmental and
health programs. The parks association with the University
coordinator allows there to be a bridge between the current working
minds involved in our environmental health issues and the future
working minds of the issues. I personally have found there to be a
lag between these two divisions due to the possible lack of
understanding of why somethings may needed to be reconstructed
inorder to be maintained. The current event exemplified the
withering environment, especially in the Dutton Island Park and Preserve. Once again, I had to a
simple task of passing out nutriments and refreshment, along with monitoring a raffle table;
however during those tasks I was making some crucial observation of the condition of the marsh.
I think it wasn't as green as it should, it appeared that it lacked oxygen. It also hinted some the
trees needed to be tagged and check for regrowth in some areas. The University of North
Florida is known for its advertising of the people who in charge of facilitating the human health
of our city, but based on this habitat I think the lag we suffer from Dutton Island Park and
Preserve is a reflection of the need for more professional nurses.

With that being said, I think our focus should be on crystallizing our
environments. The honeysuckles, or the tree dews didn't provide the
fragrance of fresh air. It resembled our human behavioral pattern of
always going for the new and leaving behind the old, which is
becoming a main contribution to our toxic miasma that is being found
in the atmosphere. This was also being reflected on our people. For
example, I literally could feel a shift in my health as I entered the
environment. I have been recently experimenting with selfies that
showed how the person features changed along with the environment.
In oxygen rich areas, the person in the picture is usually brighter and
more illuminicent, compared to the natural sepia, vintage imaging I
was getting while being in the marsh. As a health education specialist, I find that our
concentration towards clearing land should've been on the old forgotten places that are
contributing to pollution, not the areas that was sustaining our oxygen. Therefore as a future
graduate, these volunteering session provided a first hand view of what the job of a public health
specialist calls for. Many of our current pupils attention is still on what is being assessed or being
made aware of, but what needs to be done, or the new patterns of movements.

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Volunteer
Additional Pictures:

Figure 1 This beer bottle

residual it demonstrated the
progress in maintaining this
area, along with the possible
activities that are
contributing to problem.

Figure 2 The picture of

some of the participants
that provided that
setting began to reflect
within the people.