Covid-19 in 19 minutes
About me: Haipei Chen
- Rising senior in Redmond High School
- Founded a youth organization AppilyDay, have 7 chapters across the globe
- Interested in public health and medicine
Introducing Covid-19 in 19 Mins
Mission
- Educating underrepresented people and non-native English speakers on the basic knowledge of COVID-19
- Raise the awareness of COVID-19 among young generations
Why did I start this project
- Have grandparents at home who speaks only Chinese. They could only refer to COVID-19 guidelines in China, but they don’t have access to info in the US because of the language barriers. This puts them at higher risk.
- My parents are healthcare workers working at the frontlines. My mom workers as a primary care physician in Seattle and my dad is a scientist, also a healthcare worker in Wuhan at the beginning of the year.
- I’ve noticed that at the beginning of the pandemic teens aren’t very aware of how contagious the Coronavirus is.
What we do
- Translate a COVID-19 informative presentation and making it into videos
- Collaborating with Students4Covid on the information check, and Students4Covid translation team on the translation check
- Students4Covid is a group of medical students from across the world in multidisciplinary areas coming together to fight for the pandemic
Appilyday reflection video
Achievements
- Gathered over 200 teenagers across the world, partnering with about 20 youth initiatives across the US (each initiative is the project manager of a specific language group)
- Released about 20 videos in different languages on our Youtube channel Appily Day
- Sponsored by Chinese American Civic Association, a nonprofit organization, honored the gold level sponsorship among this year’s youth projects, receiving the largest amount of monetary fund $900
- Interviewed by Chinese Radio Seattle
- Was invited to the Students4Covid webinar as the only high school students organization; a webinar panelist with medical associations from Germany, Brazil and Nigeria
Other info
- Youtube Channel with all our videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqBRitHlEZ3B2aK-mtdJuyQ - Appilyday Website:
https://www.appilyday.com/ - Students4Covid (partner):
https://www.students4covid.org/
Youth organization collaborations
- 2am post (Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese)
- Dear Asian Youth (Vietnamese)
- Generation Positive (Japanese)
- Generations Together (Slovenian)
- Girl Up Bombay (Marathi)
- Global Guru (Odia)
- Inspire Science in Youth (Nepali)
- Kahon ng Karunungan (Tagalog/Filipino)
- Medical Wonders (Gujarati)
- Mind Grid (German)
- Odisha Seattle Youth (Hindi)
- Peer2peer (Turkish)
- Project Positivity (Bengali)
- Score Beyond Sports (Polish)
- She Helps Her (French)
- Simply Smart Tutoring LLC (Arabic)
- STARS Covid-19 Relief (Korean)
- The Paris Project (Russian)
- The Purple Diary Project (Spanish)
- WomenXSTEM (Indonesian)
- Youth Voices Ontario (Portuguese)