A Pella Middle School student is working to raise awareness about eating disorders through a class project. Sarabeth Decious is in Kristin Schulz’s 7th grade class, and was working on issues of global importance. Decious says she chose eating disorders because of the pressures her fellow teenagers face and some of the struggles in her own family.
“My teacher Mrs. Schulz–she was teaching us about the Global Goals [from the United Nations], and the third Global Goal is good health and wellness,” she says. “She had us think through what that looked like and how we could make a difference and help the U.N. complete that Global Goal.