Jennifer Santos

This year I had the privilege of being selected as a Be Strong student state representative. For me it is a pleasure to be able to serve in this organization and in this way also help my community. My goal is not only to help, but also to encourage others to do so. That's why I created a group: Be Strong DDCUS. My group and I have been working with different organizations helping our community. This week, we also organized our first own event. On the occasion of Memorial Day, and as a small tribute to our heroes, we held a day of cleanup. We chose Oleta River State Park and met there to clean up the beach and barbecue areas. Being a holiday, there were many people, which also translates into a lot of garbage. We are proud of the work we do, and we hope to continue organizing events like this.

Through the Cajas de Esperanza organization, boxes are collected and sent to needy children in Venezuela. It is a very good task since we know the difficult situation that the children in that sister country are going through.
For this organization, I not only collaborated by giving donations of items they needed, but also helped in the preparation and selection of products for the boxes.

Cleaning day at the Black Point marina. On other occasions I had participated with the turtle team cleaning. But this occasion was very special. It was my first time doing it as an ambassador and also participating with my own group. Two of my schoolmates met me at the marina to participate in the cleanup day. As a turtle team ambassador, I have the responsibility not only of inviting friends to accompany me, but also of coordinating the materials we will use and coordinating what area we are going to cover.

We not only distributed diapers, but also diaper bags, various items for babies and mothers, and we even give away flowers. The line of cars was super long, but the satisfied faces of the families when they received their gifts told us that they were happy with what they received.

i spent 3 hours walking around Amelia Earhart park for an event called Baynanza

Cleaning up Day of service

Since this year I have been an ambassador at my school for the non-profit organization Team Turtle, which is dedicated to keeping the Black Point area clean in a monthly event called "Marine Debris Clean Up - Black Point Marina. Our main objective is to maintain this clean area and thus prevent garbage from ending up in the sea and thereby destroying the marine life in the area.