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On November 6, 2018, we put on our community engagement experience called “NO IMPACT TOO SMALL”. Our CEE was a casual opportunity for students to become further educated about culture, by learning about a specific issue that is faced globally and locally. We had a large following from student-ran organizations that helped present that this event. For our CEE, we had a large crowd through the event, so we stood in front of the various clubs and had tables’ set-up to display our international experience and our various global/local issue. We then stood by our tables and allowed the students and community members to walk around to the various tables and ask us more specific questions. Each one of us decorated our tables with items from our travels. For my contribution, I decided discuss the aftermath of the abortion debate. During my time in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I got to witness the partial legalization to the right and free choice of abortion. A few months later it was ultimately decided that it would remain illegal under their current government. So I decided to look at the impact this had on women in the feminist community but also just women in Argentina in general. I chose to do a trifold that outlined how dangerous illegal abortions are to women and how that sends a poor message to women because these are things that are seen as their only option. Collectively we put out presentations on issues that were important to us and impacted us not only during our international experiences but also at home.
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