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              Funded Projects ,               Partner Institutions ,               Americas ,               Education ,               Social Cohesion ,               Youth           
  
  
  
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                    Union College 
            
      
        Jackson’s project aims to address the disproportionality in discipline rates between student groups in the school district and the correlation of suspensions with increased dropout rates and involvement in the legal system.
    
     
      
  
      
              Funded Projects ,               Partner Institutions ,               Asia ,               Education ,               Health & Well-being ,               Human Rights & Justice ,               Livelihoods           
  
  
  
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                    Emily Innes 
            
      
        Patel plans to expand the reach of Wings of Women, the community-driven initiative she founded in her home country of India.
    
     
      
  
      
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                    Rebecca Goldfine 
            
      
        Ruth Olujobi ’25 and Victor Souza ’26 have each received a Projects for Peace grant to work on self-designed initiatives in Nigeria and Brazil.
    
     
      
  
      
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                    Anthony Locklear 
            
      
        Two UNC students, junior Urvi Patel and sophomore Khizra Ahmad, recently received a $10,000 grant from Projects for Peace for their research in skin cancer prevention in Native American communities. 
    
     
      
  
      
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                    Meghan O'Toole 
            
      
        Economics and computer science double major Desang Lhaki Tenzin ‘28 grew up in Bhutan, where many monasteries face significant resource challenges.
    
     
      
  
      
              Funded Projects ,               Alumni ,               Partner Institutions ,               Africa ,               Equipment & Infrastructure ,               Health & Well-being           
  
  
  
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                    The University of Maine 
            
      
        The Projects for Peace alum is a microbiology major and member of the Honors College
    
     
      
  
      
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                    Nosipho Vilakazi 
            
      
        The Lekelela Initiative aims not only to create peace but also to address the roots of its absence: the lack of educational support that can alter the trajectory of young lives. (1856)
    
     
      
  
      
              Funded Projects ,               Partner Institutions ,               Asia ,               Health & Well-being           
  
  
  
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                    Carleton College 
            
      
        Nusaibah is majoring in chemistry and economics at Carleton.
     
      
  
      
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                    Bradley Nelson 
            
      
        Two Whitman students will use the $10,000 grant to increase computer access and literacy at a school in Nepal.
    
     
      
  
      
              Funded Projects ,               Partner Institutions ,               Asia ,               Environment ,               Health & Well-being ,               Human Rights & Justice ,               Livelihoods           
  
  
  
      
      
        Congratulations to Nina Kornfeld (CC’26) and Gulnazik Bakhramova (GS’26) on being named 2025 Projects for Peace recipients!