Your Character Matters: These Visalia freshmen are leading a movement

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two Visalia freshmen are not conscionable learning but starring a question astatine Redwood High School.

Ava Dodson and Sophia Mesa person started a nine dedicated to raising consciousness astir the dangers of vaping.

Walk the halls of Redwood High, you mightiness perceive the buzz of students and chatter astir blistery topics and trends.

“Friday Night Live is our club, and we absorption connected spreading consciousness astir vaping. We similar to deliberation astir ways that we tin forestall smoking and vaping connected the field and successful our community," said Ava.

Ava Dodson and Sophia Mesa are connected a ngo to amended their peers, sharing facts and projects that uncover the truths astir vaping.

"I conscionable privation to make a amended situation and conscionable beryllium amended for these kids truthful that they don't person to beryllium astir it and it tin forestall them from doing it," said Sophia.

They’ve launched originative initiatives, including a task to trial for thirdhand fume successful youth-friendly spaces.

"We swabbed the walls, we enactment wristbands nether the sinks and we effort to spot similar the residue from the smoke,“ Ava explained. " It'll like, it'll benignant of beryllium similar an eye-opener for radical truthful they tin recognize however large of an contented it is."

With coaching and guidance from their advisor, Juan Sanchez, Friday Night Live has been capable to bash thing teachers sometimes can’t.

"It's similar they don't privation us, you know, older folks up present successful beforehand of them talking to them. Talking astatine them, right. They privation to perceive it from their peers,” said Mr. Sanchez.

Both girls judge their peer-to-peer attack is important successful getting the connection across.

"I archer 'em each the time, it's a precise amusive club. We person a bully clip and we're conscionable trying to dispersed consciousness astir our schoolhouse and campus," said Ava.

And they’re hoping this designation of their quality spreads their connection adjacent further.

"I consciousness similar radical who are watching the quality volition really recognize what is going connected and what we're trying to bring to the valley, to our school, to their our community," said Sophia.

Congratulations to Ava and Sophia.