Page 30 - WesternU View - Summer 2014

First-year COMP student Aayah Fatayerji helps April Iberra, 7, plant a tomato plant.

Photos by Frank Perez

WesternU students hoping garden and

healthy lifestyle at Madison Elementary

School helps with their jobs in the future

W Students started volunteering as part of their

Western University of Health Sciences Public
Service Learning Project by tutoring students and
Health Club (PHC) students established a
holding weekend workshops for parents.
Community Garden at Madison Elementary
School in Pomona as a way of promoting healthy
living in an area that lacks healthy choices to eat
Aayah Fatayerji, co-president, Alexandra Jubran,
and ample grocery stores. PHC board members and first-year COMP students
co-president, Tejal Kothari, vice president and
The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Fisayo Nwachukwu, treasurer and secretary,
(COMP) adopted the school in 2011 to help the expanded their efforts at Madison by adding a
children after funding and resources for the school garden. They held a kick-off event on April 5, 2014
were cut. during Pomona Beautification Day.

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