From High School Club to International Health Organization: Manishka's Unstoppable Story I Ep 147

What does it look like when a high schooler simply refuses to take no for an answer? 🌍 In this episode of Raq The Boat, I sit down with Manishka — a rising high school senior and founder and president of the Health Literacy Project, an international organization making health knowledge accessible to future generations across the globe. Two years ago Manishka started a high school club. Today that club has grown into an organization with 70+ volunteers impacting over 900 children worldwide, free healthcare clinics in India serving thousands of people, and chapters expanding globally. She did it by sending thousands of emails, absorbing rejection after rejection, and simply not stopping. Her first free healthcare clinic in India served 573 people. Her second served 1,800. She's a rising senior in high school. This conversation is about what happens when young people stop waiting for permission — and what the rest of us can learn from watching them go. In this episode we cover: 🌍 How the Health Literacy Project grew from a high school club to an international organization 📊 How her workshops produced 60% improvement in health knowledge and 70-73% increase in confidence among elementary students 🏥 How she organized free healthcare clinics in India — growing from 573 to 1,800 people served 💧 Her earlier work installing water pumps in Indian villages to keep girls in school 📧 Why sending thousands of emails and refusing to take no for an answer is her superpower 👩‍⚕️ Her dream of becoming a surgeon and what drew her to medicine 🎸 How playing guitar keeps her grounded amid everything she juggles 🎨 Why cutting arts and music programs in schools is a problem we need to talk about 💡 Why young people have a unique advantage in creating change that adults often don't Manishka didn't wait until she was older, more qualified, or more experienced. She just started. And then she refused to stop. 🎙️ Raq The Boat is hosted by Raquel Borras — youth advocate, documentary filmmaker, and founder of Raqvision LLC. This show amplifies the voices of young people ages 9–17 who are out here doing big things. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode 👍 Like this video if Manishka inspired you #RaqTheBoat #HealthLiteracyProject #YouthLeadership #GlobalHealth #HealthEducation #TeenFounder #HealthClinic #IndiaVolunteer #YoungChangemaker #WomenInMedicine #FutureDoctor #ArtsEducation #KidPodcast ##YouthAdvocacy #genz