Palo Alto high schoolers create initiative to educate, promote health equity

Zhang and Lee created the Cultural Health Equity Initiative less than a month ago to spread the word about how race, sexuality, socioeconomic status and other factors can affect the quality of health care people receive. 

As their first official action, the health initiative partnered up with San Francisco-based nonprofit Simply The Basics, to organize a basic hygiene drive from July 27 through August 10. The initiative is currently deciding which local stores they will place their drop-off bins for items like shampoo, toothpaste and soap. 

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