Two years after its founding at the hands of Ali Chaudhry ’12, Kenneth Feder ’12, and Kumail Akbar ’12, the student-run organization Possibilities Pakistan has, in Wesleyan tradition, entered the competition for the Dell Social Innovation Prize, which awards $50,000 to an organization “with innovative ideas to solve a social or environmental problem.”
In Pakistan, educational guidance is an extremely novel concept, and for 99 percent of the population it does not exist at all.
As far as I have seen, people are naturally self-interested—given appropriate direction, I believe this is a good thing. We protect from danger both our physical bodies and the fundamental ideologies that give our Selves meaning and worth.
On a campus where “Wesleyan time” runs about fifteen behind being fashionably late, arriving half an hour before the start of an event is almost unimaginable.
Upon returning to any left-leaning liberal arts college in the fall and asking the typical “What did you do over the summer?” question, one occasionally hears about community service trips to developing countries.
On July 19, Jessica Posner ’09, the Managing Director of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), stood onstage in a blue sequined dress at The Do Something Awards live on VH1 in Hollywood. The next day, back in a pair of jeans, Posner boarded a flight to Kenya with a check for $100,000.
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The Johanna Justin-Jinich Memorial Clinic of Kibera has made it into the final round of the Dell Social Innovation Competition, moving one step closer to winning the $50,000 grand prize.
Two weeks ago, five Wesleyan students’ dream—to bring free health services to women in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum—took a giant step forward.