Equipment & Infrastructure / 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 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 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 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 Rebecca Irakiza ’25 Ensures Safe Water Access Through Projects for Peace Grant /projects-peace/rebecca-irakiza-25-ensures-safe-water-access-through-projects-peace-grant A Trinity College student is working to provide better access to clean water in her home country of Burundi. 2025-03-17T11:12:56-0400 Eliana Rosen 22934 Cultivating a Community of Care /projects-peace/cultivating-community-care Through the Davis Projects for Peace Grant and a Fulbright ETA, Allie Stankewich ’23 is building relationships with the communities she serves in East Africa. 2025-03-17T10:53:19-0400 Emily Innes 22932 Making a Real-World Difference /projects-peace/making-real-world-difference Colby’s two Projects for Peace grantees will use their $10,000 grant to improve internet access and help farmers in Nepal. 2025-03-17T10:28:29-0400 Abigail Curtis 22930 College of the Atlantic Students Mounts Refugee Support Project /projects-for-peace/reading-room/college-atlantic-students-mounts-refugee-support-project Alejandra Morales Torres will utilize her grant to improve the lives of migrant children in her hometown of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 2023-07-27T15:56:03-0400 Anara Katz 20627 Projects for Peace Alum Combats Flooding in Pakistan /projects-for-peace/reading-room/projects-peace-alum-combats-flooding-pakistan Projects for Peace and Williams College alum Hamza Farrukh has continued the work he started in 2014 to help Pakistanis impacted by flooding access clean drinking water. 2022-10-05T10:08:14-0400 Anmol Irfan 17848 Building Economic Agency for Women /projects-for-peace/reading-room/building-economic-agency-women Bates College student Grace Sandia Taban designed her Project for Peace, “Gua Le Mara (Power to the Women),” in hopes of galvanizing economic opportunities for women in her home of South Sudan as a way to counteract gender-based violence.  2022-05-05T13:47:43-0400 Devin McGrath-Conwell 15846