The Kathryn Wasserman Davis 100 Projects for Peace is open to undergraduates at any of the 76 American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program. The objective is to encourage and support today’s motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace in the 21st century.
100 Projects for Peace is being made possible by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, an accomplished internationalist and philanthropist, who wanted to use her 100th birthday to help young people launch "some immediate initiatives…that will bring new thinking to the prospects of peace in the world."
Leah Bevis: recording children's stories in Uganda
Listen to an interview with Leah Bevis, as she talks about the Projects for Peac
e Fellowship that she and three of her classmates received for recording children's stories in Uganda.
Click here to learn more about Leah Bevis, a junior at Middlebury College, where she is pursuing a degree in Geography and a minor in African Studies and Economics.
Go directly to the Uganda Stories website.
Logan Gibson: setting up a library in Rwanda
Logan Gibson, a Washington and Lee senior, collaborated with Rwanda School Project to set up a library for a new school being built in Rwamagana. Ultimately, the RSP hopes to make the library available several times a week as a reading room for the community at large—making it the second public library in all of Rwanda. Read Gibson's blog about her experience traveling up Kilimanjaro, through the Serengeti, and over to Kibungo, Rwanda, where she spent the summer cataloging and assembling books. Listen to a radio interview about her adventure and how her work will continue this year at college, while she is president of Washington and Lee's Books for Africa organization.
Joseph Kaifala: constructing a library
in Conakry-Dee, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, a country that was ravaged by civil war for over a decade, witnessed the killing of some 50,000 people, the maiming of thousands of children, and the destruction of about 60% of its educational institutions. In 2004 the United Nations Development Index ranked Sierra Leone 176th out of 177 countries, and the adult literacy rate as 122nd out of 177 nations.
Kaifala's project sought to address the country's need for educational advancement through the construction of a library in the western province town of Conakry-Dee, one of the areas where poverty has been entrenched since the end of the war in 2002.
Read the speech Joseph Kaifala gave upon the unveiling St. Joseph's Junior Secondary School Library of Peace, August 2007