Enroot visits the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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My name is Dachenie Ganthier and I’m a 14-year-old sophomore at Cambridge Rindge Latin School.  I was granted the amazing opportunity through Enroot to hear other people’s amazing and wonderful stories and their paths through the medical field.  Those words awaken my soul when I hear them “THE MEDICAL FIELD” and a little fun fact about me is that I wanted to be a doctor since before I was born but I recently find about that I wanted to be a general surgeon.  It was an honor to receive this opportunity and thankful for Enroot for providing this magical and magnificent experience to us. We were able to hear four amazing people’s stories and their way through become who they are today. The four awesome speakers explain their paths through working with organizations internationally. Which is awesome and they worked with organizations to respond trough humanitarian crisis around the world. They taught us that there are so many ways that you could be involved in the medical field. Sometimes they travel weekly to respond to humanitarian crisis around the world and find ways they can make their job better and be better at what they are.

“They inspired me to become what I want to become and more. ”
— Dachenie, Enroot Student

Don’t forget about the awesome free awesome food they provided for us (burgers to be exact) Who doesn’t love free food? I want to be a general surgeon and with Enroot behind my back I know I could be anything.

Enroot '19 Graduate Josee Receives Friends of CRLS First Scholars Award!

Congratulations to our very own Enroot graduate Josee for receiving the Friends of CRLS First Scholars award!!

FOCRLS helps determined, high achieving CRLS students and we at Enroot are ecstatic they have chosen to support a first generation immigrant student in our Cambridge community. Josee will be studying criminal justice at the University of Massachusetts Boston next year and will continue to be a part of our Enroot family by participating in Enroot’s College Success Program. When asked about her future endeavors at UMass Boston this is what she had to say:

“Being the first in my family to embark on a four-year college education means a lot to me and to my family. Also, I am grateful for being the first, because I can show a good example to my little cousins so that they will be interested to go to college like me. They can also use me as a resource to help them with school work and life's situations. I hope that one day I will become a detective and come to help people who don't have a voice within society, especially people of color. My goal is to do outreach and teach people about how the criminal justice system works. Through workshops, I also want to teach them when and how to claim their basic human rights."

Way to go Josee, we know there are only more great things to come!!