Davis Projects For Peace

Simone Schmid ('17) with children in Nyagatare, Rwanda, where she helped an agricultural cooperative implement an irrigation project.

Cooperative member in watering seedlings

A member of RPPC agricultural cooperative in Nyagatare, Rwanda, waters seedlings using the irrigation system that Simone Schmid ('17) helped community members install.

Hilary Johnson '15 and Gurkaran Singh '15 worked in Ghana with the organization Tech Needs Girls to help educate and empower young women.

Thabo Matse '14, an engineering and economics major, worked in his homeland of Swaziland to improve the lives of children and families.

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Deadline: January 15, 2018

The Davis Projects for Peace Program supports young people to create and test their own ideas for building peace. Dartmouth students are invited to design grassroots projects that they implement in the summer. The program has enabled Dartmouth students, individually and in teams, to undertake projects aimed at the promotion of peace around the world.

The Davis Projects for Peace Program was made possible by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, an accomplished internationalist and philanthropist. Upon the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2007, Mrs. Davis celebrated by committing one million dollars for 100 projects for peace. Because of the many achievements of students that summer, Mrs. Davis has continued to support the Program.

Proposal Guidelines

Prepare a written statement that answers the following questions about the project.

Who would you be working with and where?
What is the issue you want to address?
How do you plan to implement the project?
What are the expected outcomes?
How is the project related to peace?

Successful Dartmouth projects have included:

Empowering Iranian women through a series of classes, workshops, and trainings in creative writing, dance, painting and photography.
Helping a rural community Rwanda to install a water pump for their agricultural cooperative
Providing college test preparation materials and assistance to Ugandan students to encourage application to US colleges
Creating a playwriting workshop for youths in Biloxi, Mississippi
Introducing a community garden in the Bronx
Cultivating a farm in Swaziland to help support kitchens to feed the children and mothers in a high HIV prevalent country
Helping with a sheep loan program in Tibet to provide a sustainable income for impoverished families

PDFs of past successful proposals will be provided to interested applicants.

Application

To apply, please submit a complete application, including a written project proposal (maximum 2 pages) and one page budget by the deadline. The most promising projects (a primary and an alternate) will then be forwarded to the Davis Foundation for consideration.

Deadline:

Monday, January 15, 2018 - 5:00pm

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