Creating Dialogue and Building Leadership through Student Exchange
2007-11-14 @ 09:58:30
FOUNDATION'S BELOIT COLLEGE STUDENT NAMED WEISSBERG SCHOLAR
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Beloit's Weissberg Scholar at Vesalius University in Brussels
Photo courtesy of Orange European Youth Press
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Javid Ahmad, the speaker shown in the photo above, was supported by the Foundation during his studies at Belloit College. He went on to obtain a Master's degree from the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University and is now a Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council focusing on South Asia. Other students supported by the Foundation are pursuing Master's degrees: one at the Hertie School in Berlin Germany focusing on refugee populations, the other at Boston University pursuing a degree in Public Health. Another student will graduate this spring for Endicott College.

The Foundation supported the education in this country of fourteen other young Afghans, some of whom have returned to Afghanistan with the skills needed by their country as it continues to grapple with increasingly serious challenges. One of those, a graduate of Smith College, has married there. She and her husband are opening a center (Dua Center for Child Protection) to create a safe, secure, creative and supportive learning environment and respond to exploitation, neglect, abuse and all other forms of violence affecting vulnerable children in Kabul, especially those with disabilities, of all ages, genders, backgrounds and identities who are at high risk of being physically, sexually and psychologically abused.

We are deeply indebted to the colleges, private schools, Wolfeboro Summer Camp and Foundation donors who have made this possible.