One request for support WILI received this year began: "I am a Junior at Sunnyside
High School, taking a class called Introduction to Health Care Careers with a
future goal of being a physician." The student requested tuition support to
attend the University of Arizona's (U of A) "Med-Start" program, designed to
"improve healthcare in rural and economically disadvantaged areas through the
recruitment and training of individuals from these regions." The program
coordinator, Andrew Huerta, wrote, "All Med-Start students are required to
live in the dorm. It's a part of the university, campus experience... it ends
up to be the best benefit of the program."
WILI hopes that by exposure to the
U of A as a junior in high school, that this young woman will ultimately achieve
her goal of becoming a physician. Her father told WILI president Catherine Marshall,
"I don't want my daughter cleaning toilets for a living like I do. I don't want her
dropping out of high school in the 10th grade like her sister did. She can achieve
more than that." WILI hopes to be able to continue to support this student in her
journey towards becoming a physician, and to continue to work with the program that
referred her to us, the Southern Arizona Border Health Careers Opportunity Program (SAB-HCOP).
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