Author: Wallenberg Committee

This summer, I had the opportunity to work as the Executive Intern with the Broadway Dreams Foundation, a not for profit arts organization dedicated to arts education and musical theatre around the world. With...

Over the summer in 2017, I had the opportunity to travel to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, to spend three and a half months working with a breast cancer initiative. I worked with...

Daphne Cheng worked with the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children and local health organizations in the province of Cavite in the southern Philippines. She was part of a team helping a group...

I spent my summer in Beira, Mozambique working on research to evaluate the impacts of different health, economic, and educational HIV interventions for orphans and vulnerable children. This was my first time in a...

Over the summer, I volunteered in Delhi, India for four weeks and worked at an organization called PORDAC (Protection of the Rights of Differently Abled Children). This opportunity was made possible both by the...

I spent the summer finalizing a twelve-month longitudinal field epidemiological study within northwestern Ecuador (province Esmeraldas). Interestingly, this region has been isolated from most of the continent until recent highway development within the last...

Frederick Newing volunteered at an orphanage in Arusha, Tanzania. Because of the high rate of HIV/AIDS infections and other illnesses, many children are being fostered by relatives. Orphanages alleviate the strain on families with...

This summer, I worked as a French and Italian teacher for adult refugees at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome, Italy. The JNRC is a day center where 250 refugees and asylum-seekers gather...

With the generous support of the Wallenberg Travel Award, I was able to create a Photovoice project. The project focused on gaining an improved understanding of youth navigating non-traditional sexuality and gender expression in...