I spent my summer with The Kenya Project, a program I started my freshman year that brings an interdisciplinary group of University of Michigan undergraduates to Kithoka, Kenya to partner with locals to start small-scale businesses. We challenge ourselves to take the theory of creating impact we talk about in school classrooms and actually apply…
Category: 2013
The Wallenberg International Summer Travel Award allows selected students to take part in a community service project or civic participation anywhere in the world.
Layne Vandenberg
This past June, I traveled to Meru, Kenya to continue working on a grassroots, social entrepreneurship and human-centered design experiment called “The Kithoka Soap Initiative” (TKSI). I originally laid the foundation for TKSI in the summer of 2012 alongside Dr. Karambu Ringera, founder and President of a Kenya-based non-profit organization named International Peace Initiatives (IPI).…
Paul Stromberg
This summer I worked for an Indigenous radio station in Guatemala. During this trip I used my experience at WCBN to help this station update much of its equipment. All of this station’s equipment was 20 or 30 years old, so it was in need of fixing, which I was happy to do. Much of…
Carolina Fuentes Diego
This summer I had the opportunity to live in Berlin, Germany. I worked with Allegro Grundschule, an elementary school near central Berlin. I assisted with classes and homework through the end of the school year. During the summer the school provides all-day care and we had field trips and activities for the children. The school…
Kaylee VanDommelen
This past summer I had the incredible opportunity to go abroad to Tanzania with World Endeavors. I lived with a host family in the city of Arusha and worked at Tengeru Hospital. Living with a host family allowed me to further my knowledge of Swahili and further my understanding of the local customs and culture.…