Category: Field Service

Ten teams of Clinton School students will complete public service projects in partnership with public agencies and nonprofit organizations across Arkansas during the 2011-2012 academic year. As part of the school’s Master of Public Service degree program, the students will earn academic credit for their work on the projects, which include efforts to improve childhood…

Clinton School graduate Shamim Okolloh is finishing up her final project with Heifer International in Uganda, where she is helping develop curriculum for a secondary school based on sustainable agricultural principles. Okolloh’s work is featured on Heifer International’s blog, which includes the following:

After many failed attempts to start a music program at CSRS, it has finally happened. Thanks to Derrick Rainey of The Clinton School, who happens to be an incredible cellist and Tori Bates, a Vanderbilt volunteer, who has played harp for 11 years. Together they started working with students on the basics.

Clinton School student and Joplin, Mo., native Kate Raum returned to her hometown last week with sevens fellow Clinton School students to volunteer in the cleanup efforts in the aftermath of the devastating tornado that hit the city earlier this summer.

Clinton School student Heath Carelock has been awarded the Dr. Elliot Percival Skinner Scholars Fellowship from the Black Professionals in International Affairs (BPIA) to support his International Public Service Project this summer with the World Toilet Organization in Singapore.

Clinton School students Kate Cawvey and Nicky Hamilton checked in this week from Cape Town, South Africa, where they are completing their International Public Service Projects in partnership with the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre.

The two students ran along with nearly 5,000 other participants in the Dili Marathon for Peace in Dili, East Timor. Before completing the half-marathon, they had the opportunity to meet Dili Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao.

Clinton School students Molly McGowan (’12) and Nicky Hamilton (’12), who are in Cape Town, South Africa, this summer for their International Public Service Projects, got a special treat this week when they volunteered at an event featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and Nobel peace prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.