Our Girl of Lourdes junior Isabella (Isa) Ramos simply completed her Lady Scout Gold Award known as Inventive Creatures.
“My Gold Award was focused to dementia sufferers,” she says. “I lived with that with my grandmother. She handed away in January of 2022.”
Her venture entailed accumulating small stuffed animals and donating them to quite a few fireplace departments. The stuffed animals are carried in fireplace rescue vehicles to provide to dementia or Alzheimer’s sufferers when they’re frightened. In complete, she collected 500 stuffed animals.
“We additionally took financial donations,” she says. “Plenty of the firefighters donated. It was by no means my intention, however they donated. So, 500 bears. It exceeded my expectations.”
The venture was created because of the experiences she had together with her grandmother. When her grandmother was afraid, Ramos would give her one in all her stuffed animals and that might assist her grandmother settle down.
Ramos determined to donate the stuffed animals to fireside departments as a result of she wished to assist dementia sufferers who have been of their properties and coping with a scary state of affairs when needing emergency care.
She met with the fireplace chief of Coral Gables and discovered that the bundle with the stuffed animal needed to be compact.
“We needed to discover one thing that was six inches in size in order that it will match each within the luggage and the fireplace compartment,” she says.
To assist with the venture, she turned to the Well being Professionals Membership at her college.
“We mentioned the best way to make it sustainable,” she says. “The fireplace departments are prepared to proceed to facilitate it as effectively.”
She says the Coral Gables fireplace division mentioned the venture is profitable.
“I did practice a gaggle of firefighters at each division,” she says. “I defined what the venture was, that if you really feel it’s crucial, if you really feel it’s going downhill, that’s if you give it to them.”
Ramos says that when she gave her grandmother a stuffed animal, it appeared to take her again to her roots in Cuba, when her mom would give her a stuffed animal.
“She typically would neglect who I used to be or who my mother was,” Ramos says. “I don’t know why, it simply labored and helped us cope with the signs. It was tough. I used to be solely 14 when she handed away. I wished to assist her. I grew up and I did it. This venture has been for me, not closure, however honoring her.”
In school, she’s not solely within the Well being Professionals Membership however Key Membership, the Spanish Membership, and the Style Membership as effectively.
She does neighborhood service with a small non-profit known as Branches which does a Thanksgiving drive. It contains prepping meals on Thanksgiving morning and volunteers can signal as much as be a driver.
“I like to ship them,” she says.
Ramos volunteers for Obtain Miami, serving to youngsters develop their studying and writing expertise.
Final summer time, she traveled to the Dominican Republic for a Blue Mission journey to dig trenches to provide water to a distant village within the countryside.
Ramos additionally teaches CCD lessons to 3rd graders at St. John Neumann Catholic Church.
Due to her curiosity within the medical subject, she accomplished an internship at Physician’s Hospital in Coral Gables in July 2023. She additionally did an internship in a pediatrician’s workplace.
“I need to be a neurosurgeon,” she says. “I need to research the mind. I’m additionally inquisitive about surgical procedure. Being a neurosurgeon is the very best of each worlds.”
Subsequent fall, she’s contemplating making use of to Clemson, Catholic College, Loyola College, and a few of the state universities.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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