Education / en Desang Tenzin '28 Awarded Projects for Peace Grant to Improve Monastery Living Conditions /projects-peace/desang-tenzin-28-awarded-projects-peace-grant-improve-monastery-living-conditions Economics and computer science double major Desang Lhaki Tenzin ‘28 grew up in Bhutan, where many monasteries face significant resource challenges. 2025-05-09T10:58:58-0400 Meghan O'Toole 23139 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 Sunita Nepali ’27 & Sol Tran ’27 Receive Projects for Peace Grant /projects-peace/sunita-nepali-27-sol-tran-27-receive-projects-peace-grant Two Whitman students will use the $10,000 grant to increase computer access and literacy at a school in Nepal. 2025-05-09T10:19:42-0400 Bradley Nelson 23135 Bringing Financial Education to Women via Projects for Peace /projects-peace/bringing-financial-education-women-projects-peace 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. 2025-05-09T10:02:28-0400 Sonia Paul 23133 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 Penn Fourth-Year Annabelle Jin Named 2025-26 Luce Scholar /projects-peace/penn-fourth-year-annabelle-jin-named-2025-26-luce-scholar Jin is one of 16 students chosen as a 2025-26 Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation. 2025-04-14T15:20:45-0400 Penn Today 23040 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 Sharing Educational Opportunities To Build a Brighter Future /projects-peace/sharing-educational-opportunities-build-brighter-future Two WPI juniors get youth in their hometown excited about STEM. 2025-04-14T10:22:58-0400 Mia Lumsden 23028 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 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