How Maria & Bridget Live United
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Maria Semsa, Age 29.
I LIVE UNITED by Working at Ensuring Stability through Action in our Community, a United Way partner agency, and by working as a health educator, teaching families about asthma treatment.
Learn about Ensuring Stability through Action in our Community.
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Bridget Jevens, Age 25.
I LIVE UNITED by being a mentor to young girls. It is so important to have someone to look up to when you’re a teenager, especially if that someone is not much older then you.
I listen to the young girls I mentor explain their stories of the stresses of for applying to college, first-time boyfriends, and how they deal with pressure by their peers. They may not always take my advice, and I know when I was their age, I believed I knew everything. But sometimes having someone listen to you about your issues and give a little insight into similar problems they encountered makes you feel less alone and confused. I still to this day get emails from the young girls I mentored telling me about how they solved their issues with friends and how they are doing in college. I will always be and need a mentor. At 25, I still have mentors; I find them in my friends, work colleagues, and most of all my family. Living your life is hard to do alone; having a mentor makes the journey a little easier.
