Hilton Head Island High School Z-Club Personal Statement

Raise the status of women worldwide. My first time hearing the mission of the Hilton Head Island High School Zonta club, I was a freshman. At that time the only awareness of women’s issues I had were imitations of my mother and her feelings. I knew that something needed to be fixed, globally. However, it wasn’t until we began working on our annual projects that year that I realized just how many “somethings” there were. I devoted the vast majority of my time to researching women’s issues, ways to combat them, and the organizations that were already doing so in my community. Surrounded by a white majority and deep southern values, I initially believed my region was doomed to perpetually live in the 50’s. Though as I delved further I found innovation

My four years spent as President and Vice President of the Hilton Head Island High School Z-Club became devoted to answering that question for the girls in my school and ensure that everyone knew and had access to these places. Our focus turned to answering that question for the student body and piloting anti-relationship abuse campaigns, women’s menstrual health projects to benefit women in third world countries, and regularly discussing issues with the school. I began to see my club, and my high school community, band together and become more aware of women’s issues. Ideas from the each different cultural niche on Hilton Head helped us create projects that had a broader reach to educate more women. It all came to fruition when Hilton Head Island World Affairs Council partnered with the Hilton Head Island High School Z-Club and held an event and showing of the human-trafficking focused “Not My Life Documentary,” and I fully recognized the importance of Zonta, I saw the impact it can have on an individual life. As a freshman, I did not understand the mission of the Zonta