{"id":372342,"date":"2019-04-04T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=372342"},"modified":"2019-04-04T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:03:41","slug":"rochester-students-to-receive-davis-projects-for-peace-grants-372342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rochester-students-to-receive-davis-projects-for-peace-grants-372342\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester students to receive Davis Projects for Peace grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four University of Rochester students will lead two projects abroad this summer after receiving grants from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davisprojectsforpeace.org\/\">Davis Projects for Peace<\/a>, a national program in which college students design and implement projects that promote peace and intercultural understanding.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Junior Beauclaire Mbanya \u201920 will host \u201cTogetherness for Peace\u201d in his hometown of Douala, Cameroon, from mid-July to mid-August. The program will focus on peace and restorative justice education, entrepreneurship skills, and community engagement training for 40 participants ages 17 to 26. The past two years have seen hundreds killed and thousands forced to flee their homes due to a confrontation between Cameroon\u2019s French-speaking and English-speaking communities.<\/li>\n<li>Eve Marealle \u201921, Joyceline Marealle \u201920, and Kapambwe Chalwe \u201920 will oversee \u201cPeace Through Entrepreneurship in the United Republic of Tanzania\u201d\u2014a six-week program beginning in early June that will establish a greenhouse farming business run by teenage girls who were forced to leave school and to work in abusive environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Davis Projects for Peace was created in 2007 by international philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis, who committed $1 million for 100 grassroots projects to celebrate her 100th birthday. Rochester is guaranteed funding for one project as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davisuwcscholars.org\/\">Davis United World College Scholars Program<\/a>, which includes nearly 100 American colleges and universities, but has received an additional grant for the second consecutive year. Joyceline Marealle attended Davis UWC Maastricht in the Netherlands, and Chalwe attended UWC Waterford-Swaziland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_372892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372892\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-372892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Davis-Peace-trio.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of three students. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Davis-Peace-trio.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Davis-Peace-trio-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Davis-Peace-trio-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Joyceline Marealle \u201920, Kapambwe Chalwe \u201920 and Eve Marealle \u201921 will use their Davis Projects for Peace grant this summer to establish a greenhouse farming business run by teenage girls in Tanzania who were forced to leave school and to work in abusive environments. (University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Student projects are selected through a competitive campus nomination process managed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/studentfellowships\/\">Fellowships Office<\/a>. The two are among 125 chosen, and each project will receive a $10,000 grant.<\/p>\n<p>Beauclaire, a chemical engineering major, says \u201cTogetherness for Peace\u201d will focus on two areas: addressing cultural and language barriers between the Anglophone and Francophone communities in a bid to foster peace and reconciliation, and tackling the issue of unemployment by empowering campers with entrepreneurial tools to develop viable business plans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_372902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372902\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-372902 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/davis-peace-Beauclaire-Junior.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of Junior Beauclaire Mbanya.\" width=\"450\" height=\"603\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davis Projects of Peace grant recipient Junior Beauclaire Mbanya \u201920 will host a restorative justice and community training program in his hometown of Douala, Cameroon. (University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Partner organization Local Youth Corner Cameroon will help recruit the campers and coordinate community engagement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to foster the sustainability of the project through the Pass It On campaign initiative, where our participants are expected to hold dialogue and reconciliation sessions in their different communities after the program ends\u2014to pass on the knowledge they\u2019ve gained from the training,\u201d Beauclaire says, adding that mentors will be assigned to groups after the camp to make sure they are meeting the expectations set.<\/p>\n<p>The Marealle sisters\u2014both chemical engineering majors and twins from Tanzania\u2014and Chalwe, an electrical and computer engineering major from Zambia, say their project will be run in coordination with Greenhouse International, which will provide construction services, installation of an irrigation system, and other farming skills. The students also will partner will New Hope for Girls, a Tanzania-based organization that assists marginalized girls who are risk of engaging in child labor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany go to large cities for employment, often as housekeepers,\u201d Chalwe says. \u201cThey\u2019re subject to low pay, long hours, and sometimes verbal and sexual abuse. Our initiative aims to reduce the prevalence of child abuse by providing a sustainable income through this business and by hosting workshops that teach the girls skills such as resume writing and how to apply for jobs and college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grant was especially heartwarming to Chalwe, who was applying to Davis Projects for the third time. \u201cI was so excited to know I\u2019ll be part of this problem solvers group,\u201d he says. \u201cIt came as a shock to me. I never gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Rochester students will lead two projects this summer as part of a national program in which college students design and implement projects that promote peace and intercultural understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":672,"featured_media":372872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30452,33362,5886],"class_list":["post-372342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-class-of-2020","tag-class-of-2021","tag-davis-projects-for-peace"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rochester students to receive Davis Projects for Peace 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