WILMINGTON - The average high schooler may take time to enjoy their vacation during the summer months. Some get a seasonal job. Some do extracurricular activities.
But Wilmington's Jade Brennan is traveling to Ghana for three weeks in July to complete a volunteer medical internship through Projects
Abroad before entering her senior year. " I've always loved helping people," she said. " When I was younger I wanted to teach. We had this chalkboard paint on one side of the room. I'd sit my sister down and teach her and try to help her learn stuff."
But a lot has changed from Brennan's younger years to her teenage years. She was influenced by her high school anatomy and photography classes before making the decision to head overseas.
"Just seeing how all the systems worked together and separately, it was so cool," Brennan said of her anatomy class. " I'm actually interning for my teacher next year, so I'll get to help people learn the anatomy the way I learned it." But it was her photography class is was prompted her to put in her first application. The class was on the topic of photojournalism. During class presentations, Brennan got an unsettling feeling after seeing Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photo of starving child in Sudan with a vulture in the background.
"I was sitting at the computer and after we finished the presentations I immediately went into an application for an internship and put it right in," she said.
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