Sunita Nepali ’27 & Sol Tran ’27 Receive Projects for Peace Grant
Two Whitman students will use the $10,000 grant to increase computer access and literacy at a school in Nepal.
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Bringing Financial Education to Women via Projects for Peace
by Sonia Paul
Mount Holyoke College student Alexandra Mihailopol ’26 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of a Projects for Peace grant. She will offer financial literacy education to women in rural Romania via her EmpowHER project.
Bridge2Rwanda Fellow, Bienfait H. Mugenza, Promoting Peace Through Entrepreneurship in the DRC
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Penn Fourth-Year Annabelle Jin Named 2025-26 Luce Scholar
by Penn Today
Jin is one of 16 students chosen as a 2025-26 Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Skidmore Grad Opens Library in Ivory Coast
A Skidmore College alum who grew up in Anyama, Ivory Coast amidst a decade-long civil war returned to her hometown to open a library.
Sharing Educational Opportunities To Build a Brighter Future
by Mia Lumsden
Two WPI juniors get youth in their hometown excited about STEM.
A STEM Grows in Ghana
Projects for Peace participants Eleanor Goddard ’25 and Stephen Amankonah Sekyere ’27 bring technology—and hope—to middle-schoolers in West Africa
RMC Alumna Aims to Boost Literacy in Liberia Through Project for Peace Library
Through a $10,000 Project for Peace grant, Birch spent the summer after her graduation helping create a library at Leap of Faith Academy, an elementary school in Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia.
A Childhood Dream
Engineering student wins Project for Peace grant to establish technology center in Tanzania