Category: Field Service

At the two-day workshop READ Nepal, a development organization, gathered 30 community leaders to sound out ideas on guidelines and steps for rural development.

Clinton School student Mark Lienhart, who is helping fight foot desease in Ethiopia for his international project, sent us an update on his and classmate Ben Kaufman’s travels in the country. Lienhart is working with the Mossy Foot Treatment and Prevention Association (MFTPA)

The students will visit 25 countries on six continents and partner with government, non-government and nonprofit organizations on International Public Service Projects (IPSP) in areas such as corporate responsibility, environmental conservation, public health, education, poverty reduction and economic development.

Clinton School students Mark Lienhart (’11) and Ben Kaufman (’11) met with Blake MyCoskie, the chief shoe giver of TOMS Shoes on Wednesday in Little Rock.

Clinton School student Viviane Rossi recently completed a report on funding and partnership opportunities for a Brazilian non-profit that provides educational opportunities for impoverished young women and girls.

Hope for Haiti, the local Haiti relief organization headed by Clinton School student Ivan Noisette, is hosting a “You Care We Share” supplies drive this weekend. Hope for Haiti will organize hygiene kits for Church World Service and collect supplies for a homelessness drive in Memphis. Please consider dropping off any of the items listed below. Boxes will be available on site to collect supplies:

Two more Clinton School students will present their final projects today at Sturgis Hall. With graduation steadily approaching, member of the Class of 2010 are finishing their work. Here’s today’s presentations:

Faisal Umar, a Clinton School student and Fulbright scholar from Indonesia, partnered with the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department to complete a study of how San Antonio-area residents use and benefit from a local park system.

The attention could lead to expansion of the HEARTS program to other cities, Stokes said. “I would like to bring this program to Arkansas so that the children of my home state can benefit from this necessary program and that all preventable sudden cardiac death will be a thing of the past,” Stokes said.