On the weekend of the 1st of February, VAPSA was at the Tet Festival in Westminster representing USC. We had cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension screening in addition to educational booths regarding skin cancer, healthy living, and smoking cessation. I brought about 200 individual sample sunscreens that day to give to individuals that passed by and was able to give all of them away. It was slow towards the educational booths corner for most of the day. I’m guessing it had more to do with language barriers more than anything. There were very few of us that actually knew how to speak Vietnamese. I attempted to speak to some of the people but was stumbling as I tried to find the correct scientific terms to address my point. No one would have approached us if they hadn’t seen the free samples. Towards the second half of our shifts, we became a bit more aggressive and stepped out into high traffic areas offering the sunscreen while giving people a small excerpt about how to use the sunscreen and prevent skin cancer. It was a great experience as always, and I’m looking forward to additional health fairs this semester. We will also be participating in the Relay for Life at USC Main campus, and the Revlon Run/Walk to raise money for Cancer Research in a few months.
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