Americas

Helena Betancourt poses for a close-up picture wearing a white blazer, blue shirt, and a silver necklace.

Criminal justice major Helena Betancourt champions Projects for Peace reducing period poverty on her home island.

Facing away from the camera, a women in an orange headscarf pulls a needle and thread through a new cross-stitch project.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Middle East & North Africa, Multi-national, Arts, Health & Well-being, Social Cohesion

Stitching Hope: Student Project Brings Healing to Displaced Afghan Women

by Brianna Patterson

Over summer 2023, UNC Chapel Hill students Divya Patel and Grace May partnered with the Refugee Community Partnership to provide art therapy and community building opportunities for the local Afghan refugee population.

Photo collage of Rolando Kattan Rubi on the right, wearing a grey suit with a red tie, and Lucy Calcott on the left, wearing a yellow sundress, both smiling for portraits.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Africa, Education, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice, Youth

Yale University Global Affairs Students Work Toward Peace

by Yale Jackson

Lucy Calcott and Rolando Kattan Rubi will spend this summer in South Africa and Honduras, respectively, implementing projects that address critical societal issues.

Alejandra Morales Torres, wearing a pink shirt and beige cardigan, poses for a photo in front of a brown, wooden, deck.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Equipment & Infrastructure, Youth

College of the Atlantic Students Mounts Refugee Support Project

by Anara Katz

Alejandra Morales Torres will utilize her grant to improve the lives of migrant children in her hometown of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Three photo collage featuring three college-age young men of varying skin tones all smiling and posing for the camera in front of garden backgrounds.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Arts, Social Cohesion, Youth

Colorado College Grads Plan Art Workshops

by Julia Fennell

Friends and collaborators Cormac McCrimmon, Andres Madrigal, and Manuel Uribe will use their grant to focus on the power of art to enact social change.

Valeska Kohan and Amanda de Souza, both wearing black shirts, pose smiling for the camera with their arms around each other in front of a white wall and multi-hue blue painting.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Human Rights & Justice, Social Cohesion

Macalester Students Seek to Empower Teachers in Brazil

by Macalester College

Macalester College students Valeska Kohan and Amanda de Souza hope to use their Projects for Peace grant to train Brazilian teachers in anti-racist classroom approaches.

Weatherspoon, wearing an orange t-shirt, poses in a dimly lit living room with their book of poetry held in their hands.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Arts, Education, Health & Well-being, Youth

Bowdoin College Grantee Pursues Peace through Poetry

by Jane Godiner

As the Bowdoin community moves into the second half of the spring semester, Weatherspoon ’25 is preparing to launch a life-changing summer program for children in the foster care system.

Giovanna Novi, wearing a light blue sweater, black pants, and gray boots, smiles and sits in a brown chair placed in front of white bookshelves.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Social Cohesion, Technology

Colby College Grantee to Cultivate Communication Skills

by Laura Meader

Giovanni Novi will use her Projects for Peace grant to develop a curriculum, build an online platform, and deliver workshops and webinars to caregivers and professionals working with seniors in medical, social service, and retirement-living settings.

Jonathan Tamen poses smiling outside wearing a slate grey puffer jacket and white t-shirt with the text "helping hands" in black just visible.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Technology, Youth

Clark University Student to Address Disparities in the Classroom

by Clark University

This summer, Jonathan Tamen will implement his project Students Helping Hands, which aims to address disparities in education in Miami Beach, Florida.

Mauro José Ramírez Azofeifa, wearing a yellow shirt, black pants, ball cap, and surgical mask, poses with three children and their parents.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Environment, Youth

Projects for Peace Grantees Focus on Environmental Education

by COA Communications

College of the Atlantic’s Mauro José Ramírez Azofeifa co-founded Visionarios de Paz, an environmental education organization based in his hometown of Palmichal, Costa Rica with his $10,000 Projects for Peace grant. Read all about him and his work!

GW Senior Fights against Gender-Based Discrimination in Puerto Rico