Community-Engaged Student Travel Grants
United Nations’ Voices of African Mothers
Collaborating with partners in Ghana on sex education, including teen-pregnancy prevention, HIV/AIDS transmission and gender discrimination
Voices of African Mothers empowers young children in Kumasi, Ghana, through education. The student grantee is focusing on a community service project to prevent teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS transmission and gender discrimination as well as promote education and women empowerment. She also works with John Williams Montessori School students on empowerment and sexual education. These initiatives address the educational needs of the community as well as allow the grant recipient to have an immersive, global health opportunity.
Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Children, Youth, Seniors and Families; Education; Health, Nutrition and Medicine
Grant Recipient:
- Kierra Grayson ’19, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Community-Engaged Student Travel Grants
Temporarily paused: Funding students who are spending winter, spring or summer break participating in community-engaged learning or community-based research activities.