Category: Field Service

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.

Lee High School in Marianna, Ark., was recently honored with a grant of $3,125 from the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame for a program that Clinton School students Fernando Cutz, Nicky Hamilton and Spencer Lucker have developed and will implement in the 2011-2012 school year.

Clinton School graduate Hallie Shoffner (’11) will spend eight weeks this summer in Peru working on a project to develop capacity for Minga Peru, an organization that works to create social change by empowering women who live in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.

Clinton School graduate Jonathan Dunkley has been invited to return to Belize City, Belize, where he completed his Clinton School international service project, to conduct a youth development project focused on financial literacy and environmental sustainability.

Forest Heights Middle School in Little Rock has provided us with a plaque honoring a group of Clinton School students who volunteered at the school this year:

Clinton School student Alana Bell checked in recently from her International Public Service Project in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is working with the World Organization of the Scout Movement on an initiative to decrease bullying in schools.

Thirty-one graduate students will travel across the world this summer to complete public service projects as part of the Master of Public Service degree program at the Clinton School.

As part of their service commitment made at CGI-U, Clinton School students Spencer Lucker, Nicky Hamilton and Fernando Cutz will attend a banquet for the top graduating senior at Lee High School in Marianna, Ark., on Thursday.