2023 Cohort
Announcing the 2023 Projects for Peace Cohort
Projects for Peace is pleased to announce its 2023 cohort of grantees. One hundred and twenty-six projects from ninety-two partner institutions were selected.
The student leaders of each project will receive $10,000 in funds to pursue innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Most projects will be implemented between June and September this year.
Education, health and well-being, social cohesion, and cultural preservation are among the diverse issue areas grantees identified this year as critical to a more peaceful world.
Interventions take the form of coalition-building, documentary and reporting, educational enrichment, sports and play activities, and technology innovations, among others. About half of the Projects for Peace focus on youth development.
Since its founding in 2007, Projects for Peace has funded more than 2,000 projects. Projects are nominated by partner colleges and universities, often working from criteria specific to their institution’s priorities.
Projects may take place anywhere in the world and may be led by an individual or by a group of students. This summer Projects for Peace will take place in more than 67 countries and 21 different U.S. states.
Projects for Peace was founded by Kathryn W. Davis, who celebrated her 100th birthday by supporting 100 Projects for Peace, designed “to bring about a mindset of preparing for peace, instead of preparing for war.”
Below, please find a complete list of the nominating institutions, project titles, and project locations. Join us in congratulating the remarkable student leaders who have chosen to commit their summer to the cause of peace.
2023 Projects for Peace
| Partner Institution | Project Title | Project Location |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst College | Representation of Intergenerational Trauma: Narratives of Second Generation Nuclear Victims | Multiple: United States, Japan |
| Bard College | Train Track to Right Track: Supporting Bangladeshis who call the Railway Tracks their Home | Bangladesh |
| Barnard College | Project Access: Wisconsin | United States |
| Barnard College | They Never Told Us These Things | Japan |
| Bates College | Angaza Dada: Improved Access to Menstrual Health and Mentorship for Young Girls | Kenya |
| Bennington College | AudioCane: Promoting Social Justice for Visually Impaired Students in Bangladesh through Education and Sustainable Infrastructure | Bangladesh |
| Bowdoin College | Take Care Initiative: Exploring Kinship Through Poetry: How A Fluid Definition of Family May Save Lives | United States |
| Brandeis University | Stewarding Sustainable Relationships Between Rural Midwestern Communities and the Soil in the Era of Climate Change | United States |
| Brown University | Moving the Needle: Community-Focused Harm Reduction Education in Tampa, FL | United States |
| Brown University | Together We Can Fight Generational Poverty: Chara Chimwe Hachitswanyi Inda | Zimbabwe |
| Bryn Mawr College | Preserving History and Lives: Stories of the Chinese in America | United States |
| Bucknell University | Community Led Toilet Sanitation Project | Liberia |
| Carleton College | Artists for a Reconciled Cambodia (ARC) | Cambodia |
| Case Western Reserve University | Improving Quality of Life for Young Tibetan Refugees | India |
| Claremont McKenna College | Spotlight: Amplifying Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Namibia | Namibia |
| Clark University | Students Helping Hands | United States |
| Colby College | Effective and Respectful Communication with Older Adults: Promoting a Culture of Care and Understanding | United States |
| Colgate University | What are the Limitations of Free Speech? Identifying and Mitigating Emerging Conflict | Multiple: Netherlands, France, Belgium |
| College of Idaho | Enhancing the Education Environment and Empowering Orphans in Hisor | Tajikistan |
| College of the Atlantic | Emotional Education for Children Exposed to Poverty and Living in Communities Vulnerable to Violence at the Mexico-United States Border | Mexico |
| Colorado College | Painting for Peace: Art Workshops in Salvador, Brazil | Brazil |
| Columbia University | Peace Through Nuclear Disarmament | Albania |
| Concordia College | Girls’ Empowerment Through Computer Literacy | Sierra Leone |
| Concordia College | Tsapi Food Bank: A Solution to the Food Crisis in Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe |
| Connecticut College | Peace of mind and peace on land: Education for Ukrainian refugee children | Multiple: Ukraine, Austria |
| Cornell University | Live it, Learn it | Uganda |
| Dartmouth College | Indigenous language learning support for Krenak youth | Brazil |
| Dartmouth College | JEKA: The Future is Bright: Empowering Zimbabwe’s Youth to Thrive, Substance-Free | Zimbabwe |
| Davidson College | Growing Futures: Agricultural Empowerment for Hosanna Children’s Home | Kenya |
| Denison University | Indigenizing Pedagogy: A Freedom Concept for Harsukh School | Pakistan |
| Duke University | Building Hope Through Education, Service, and Construction | Uganda |
| Earlham College | Climate Change Education in Primary Schools with Workshops, | India |
| Franklin & Marshall College | From the Branches: A step towards uplifting the life of Madheshi waste entrepreneurs | Nepal |
| Future Generations University | Community Peace Building Between Minority Community and Major Community in Mehalmeda Town, Ethiopia | Ethiopia |
| George Washington University | Re-Cycle | Multiple: Puerto Rico, United States |
| Georgetown University | Samajasathi Khel (Sports to Community) | India |
| Gettysburg College | Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Rural Students Through Digital Literacy & Online Education | Bangladesh |
| Graduate Institute of International Studies/Geneva | Empowering young Nepali girls through mountain hiking and environmental and cultural education | Nepal |
| Graduate Institute of International Studies/Geneva | Prevention of Herders-Farmers Conflicts through Mushroom production as an interest converging livelihood in five (05) villages of Ouinhi in Benin | Benin |
| Harvard College | Program Youth Leaders in Peacebuilding: Diminishing School Violence in Brazil | Brazil |
| Harvard College | The Next Ones Up Initiative: Mentorship for Community Reform | United States |
| Hood College | Dala’s Village Grocery Store for Stability and Peace | Thailand |
| International Christian University | Achieving Food Sovereignty in Fukushima through Anthropological and Artistic Approaches* | Japan |
| International Christian University | Peacebuilding through the Story of Reconciliation* | Multiple: Japan, United Kingdom |
| International House | Community Ambassadors (Embajadores Comunitarios) | Venezuela |
| International House | Community Kitchen for Peace: Using Food to Strengthen Bonds and Build Sustainable Livelihoods | Lebanon |
| International House | Cooperative Videographic Campaign | New York |
| International House | Creating Safe Spaces for Victims of GBV in Nepal | Nepal |
| International House | Digital Environment as a Medium for National and International Peace | Romania |
| International House | Foundations of Peacebuilding, Empowerment and Political Education: Building a Voice for Indigenous Women in Areas Most Impacted by the Boko Haram Insurgency | Nigeria |
| International House | Gardening Community After Conflict | Colombia |
| International House | History Lab Asia | Singapore |
| International House | Hygiene & Sanitation4Peace at Kigungu Landing Site - Entebbe Uganda | Uganda |
| International House | Innovators of Tomorrow: Digital Literacy & Mentorship for Peace | Ghana |
| International House | Kheowali Center for Shanti | India |
| International House | Life, Peace, Freedom: Art for Iran | Canada |
| International House | Peace 101: Learnings from Grassroot Innovation | Colombia |
| International House | Project Aizdahar | Lebanon |
| International House | Psychologists Against Structural Violence: Reimagining Psychology Through a Reparative Lens | Virtual |
| International House | Reimagining Inequalities: Improbable Dialogues in Colombia | Colombia |
| International House | Tertulias: A Place to Grow, Share, and Transform your Challenges into the Best Story | England |
| International House | The Nigerian-ly Speaking Project/Collective | Nigeria |
| International House | Water and Peace | Venezuela |
| International House | Zine-making in Tokyo’s Book Club Community | Japan |
| Kalamazoo College | Engage Not Disrupt | Nigeria |
| Lake Forest College | Addressing Healthcare Disparities of Chicagoland Rohingya Refugees | United States |
| Lehigh University | Mothers of Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone |
| Lewis & Clark College | Kuganira Health Project Proposal | Rwanda |
| Luther College | Pursuing Peace Through Advancing Women Religious’ Leadership in Ambulatory Care | Vietnam |
| Macalester College | Seeds of Peace: Fighting Racism in Rio de Janeiro by Empowering Public School Teachers | Brazil |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Project Manus | Haiti |
| Methodist University | Green Sand: In Support of Refugee Children at Hope School Western Sahara | Algeria |
| Methodist University | Project Sowa: Optimization of Healthcare Delivery in Pemagatshel, Bhutan | Bhutan |
| Middlebury College | Arts Integration for Social-Environmental Transformation of Wetland Communities | Chile |
| Middlebury Institute of International Studies | Awaz Chitrako “Voices of Photo” | Nepal |
| Mount Holyoke College | Lift Youth Voice Through Song and Dance | Puerto Rico |
| New York University | Academic Resource Center | Nepal |
| New York University | Improved Food Accessibility for Low-Income Communities | United States |
| Northwestern University | Oasis Detroit: A Communal Approach to Life in a Food Desert | United States |
| Oberlin College | African graffiti as a driver for change | Zambia |
| Occidental College | Not to Inform Us, But to Move Us: The Farm Security Agency Photos Revisited | United States |
| Pitzer College | Youth Health Education to Empower and Protect | United States |
| Pomona College | Sin Limites: A Summer Program for Latinx Youth in Norman | United States |
| Princeton University | Musical Notes: A Composition of Peace | Mexico |
| Reed College | Food Security Through Decentralized Neighborhood Farming | United States |
| Ringling College of Art + Design | “El Lugarcito”: A Better Future Through Community Building and Learning | Argentina |
| Ringling College of Art + Design | The Venezuelan Queer Oral History Project | Venezuela |
| Sarah Lawrence College | Find X: Creating Common Ground through the Written Word | United States |
| Savannah College of Art & Design | “Turtles Targeting Traps”: Achieving Coexistence With Nature | Peru |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | City in a Garden - Gardens in 12 Chicago Neighborhoods | United States |
| Scripps College | Cultivating Community Science and Clean Water in Bangkok, Thailand | Thailand |
| Skidmore College | EcoGhardens: Growing Food for Economic Sustainability | Ghana |
| Smith College | Effect + : Ger District SDG Warriors | Mongolia |
| Smith College | Kolinvai Junior High School Renovation Project | Ghana |
| St. John’s College | Autism Awareness Society | Kyrgyzstan |
| St. Lawrence University | Bridge to Equality through Exposure | Jamaica |
| St. Olaf College | Beyond our own Borders | Multiple: Ecuador, Colombia |
| Swarthmore College | Growing Food, Growing Communities, and Growing Hope (G3) for Peace. | Cameroon |
| Trinity College | DiliKar: a light industry training and capacity-building center for Artsakh Refugees | Armenia |
| Tufts University | Pilot Test Health Passport to Improve Oral Health, Malnutrition, Food Insecurity in Rural Rwanda | Rwanda |
| Union College | Energy for Peace | Poland |
| University of Chicago | One Goal: Promoting Peace through Soccer in Rio de Janeiro’s Morro dos Macacos Neighborhood | Brazil |
| University of Florida | Water for Phoolbari, Nepal | Nepal |
| University of Maine | Mission of Hope. Kisumu, Kenya | Kenya |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Afghan Women’s Group: Using Craft for Social and Emotional Healing for Displaced Women | United States |
| University of Oklahoma | Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: The Mobile Bilingual Library | Colombia |
| University of Oklahoma | Peace Through Crafts: Developing a Needlework Training Program and a Business Start Up to Help Syrian Female Refugee Workers in Lebanon | Lebanon |
| University of Pennsylvania | Saving Mothers and Babies: Launching Maternal and Child Health Education in Ugandan Villages | Uganda |
| University of Richmond | Human Trafficking Prevention Program | Cambodia |
| University of Richmond | Predator Peace Lights | Kenya |
| University of Rochester | AILEM: A Language App for Peace | United States |
| University of Virginia | Empowering Turkish Youth Through STEM Makerspaces | Turkey |
| Vassar College | One Book, More Legacies | Burundi |
| Vassar College | Wu-Tang | Nigeria |
| Wartburg College | Ending Period Poverty | Zambia |
| Washington & Lee University | Lishe Learners & Leaders: Developing Nutrition Education Through Primary School Gardens in Tanzania | Tanzania |
| Wellesley College | Our Voice as Light (OVAL) | Nigeria |
| Wesleyan University | Rwanda Youth Tech Informants (RYTI) Project | Rwanda |
| Westminster College | Bomani Goes Blue | Tanzania |
| Wheaton College | The Soil Under Our Feet | El Salvador |
| Whitman College | The Period Project | Nepal |
| Williams College | It takes a Village: Fostering Youth Educational Development in Little Haiti | United States |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Empowering immigrant voices in the fight for the environment | United States |
| Yale University | Florece: Combating Menstrual Inequity | Honduras |
| Yale University | Re Tsoga (we rise up) Community Workshops: Supporting the brain development of children in Limpopo crèches through empowering early educators and fostering community dialogue | South Africa |
*Funded by the Middlebury College Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation.