Africa / en Two Students Receive Peace Prizes to Expand Possibilities for Young People in their Home Countries /projects-peace/two-students-receive-peace-prizes-expand-possibilities-young-people-their-home 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. 2025-05-10T06:55:43-0400 Rebecca Goldfine 23145 Dominic Needham: UMaine 2025 Co-Salutatorian /projects-peace/dominic-needham-umaine-2025-co-salutatorian The Projects for Peace alum is a microbiology major and member of the Honors College 2025-05-09T10:51:46-0400 The University of Maine 23138 From Portfolio Building to Peacebuilding /projects-peace/portfolio-building-peacebuilding 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) 2025-05-09T10:35:16-0400 Nosipho Vilakazi 23137 Bridge2Rwanda Fellow, Bienfait H. Mugenza, Promoting Peace Through Entrepreneurship in the DRC /projects-peace/bridge2rwanda-fellow-bienfait-h-mugenza-promoting-peace-through-entrepreneurship-drc 2025-04-23T10:45:29-0400 Projects for Peace 23074 Bard College Student Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 Named a Schwarzman Scholar /projects-peace/bard-college-student-aleksandar-vitanov-25-named-schwarzman-scholar Projects for Peace alum Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 has been announced as a recipient of a prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship for 2025-26 2025-04-14T10:46:10-0400 Bard College 23032 Skidmore Grad Opens Library in Ivory Coast /projects-peace/skidmore-grad-opens-library-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. 2025-04-14T10:42:41-0400 Jonathon Norcross 23031 Steven Mukum ’26 Receives Two Awards Geared to Students at Forefront of Social Change /projects-peace/steven-mukum-26-receives-two-awards-geared-students-forefront-social-change Projects for Peace alum Steven (Tuti) Mukum has received both the John Lewis Young Leaders Fellowship and The Diana Award 2025-04-14T10:35:13-0400 Ryan Dougherty 23030 A STEM Grows in Ghana /projects-peace/stem-grows-ghana Projects for Peace participants Eleanor Goddard ’25 and Stephen Amankonah Sekyere ’27 bring technology—and hope—to middle-schoolers in West Africa 2025-04-14T10:15:27-0400 Eliana Joftus 23027 Ayomikun Ayodeji ’22 named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar /projects-peace/ayomikun-ayodeji-22-named-2024-rhodes-scholar The MIT alumnus will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall. 2025-04-14T10:01:30-0400 Julia Mongo 23025 RMC Alumna Aims to Boost Literacy in Liberia Through Project for Peace Library /projects-peace/rmc-alumna-aims-boost-literacy-liberia-through-project-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. 2025-04-14T09:40:49-0400 Randolph-Macon College 23024