WEBTORIUM
HEALTH
Webtorium is a student-led non-profit foundation created by Mariam Jafari, a high schooler who wanted to address global health awareness and equity.
Our mission is to educate and raise awareness on the cultural, historical, social, and biological aspects of global health, in the present while learning from and highlighting the contributions of the past.
"It is impossible to separate health inequities from root causes. To get to health equity, we must start with awareness and education to address the issues that prevent well-being, such as communal practices, systemic biases and social disadvantage. Only when we identified root causes, . . . can we focus on how to eliminate them.”
-- Mariam Jafari, 2023
Call to Action.
Children are the future.
Adolescents are one sixth of the world’s population, and they account for 6% of the world’s global burden of disease and injury.
Adolescence is the period when many risky behaviors start having a major impact on their health as adults. Cultural and societal understanding of bodies and bodily process can play a key role.
As shared by the World Health Organization.
Our Initiatives. Three ways we are becoming the change, we want to see.
Our Peer to Peer Program.
Partner with schools and communities to implement our Youth Health Buddy Program, an engaging presentation, that highlights the historical, biological and sociocultural aspects of current global health choices.
Our Giving.
Donate 1,000 copies of our published health story educating on the biological aspects of health to libraries, schools, and communities. Follow our progress
#youtheathimpact1000
Going There.
Linking arms with you to make a difference.
Due to lack of awareness and support, most children and adolescents often absorb generational, societal and communal health habits and perceptions. These health habits not only include food choices, but also cultural unconscious biases, discriminatory attitudes and social pressures on body image. This results in the prevailing stereotypes to persist, and the epidemic to continue. According to the World Health Organization, half of all social health disorders in adulthood start by age 14, but most cases are undetected and untreated.
This statistic makes evident the pressing need for children to receive health awareness and support in their environments with adequate cultural and societal considerations.
For the youth, by the youth. Building a global community.
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