الولايات المتحدة: مسلمة تحصل على دعم مالي لبرنامج السلام بين الشباب

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قدم "مشروع ديفز" للسلام 10 آلاف دولار منحة للطالبة "فاطمة باواني"، الطالبة بـ"جامعة روشستر" الأمريكية؛ وذلك مساهمةً في البرنامج الصيفي الذي ستطلقه بعنوان "صوت الأمل: تمكين الأجيال التالية من اللاجئين"، عن دعم السلام بين الطلاب خلال التعليم، والذي يتضمن مشروع صور فوتوغرافية وورش عمل عن فرص التعليم بعد المدارس الثانوية.

ويأتي ذلك في ظل المنح التي يقدمها برنامج "باحثي كلية ديفيز المتحدين العالميين"، والتي تُسهم في تقديم دعم لمائة مشروع صيفي طلابي؛ حيث يتقدم الطلاب بالمشروعات الفردية والجماعية التي يتم اختيار بعضها ومساعدته بالدعم؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Rochester Student Receives $10K to Fund Youth Peace Project

Since she was a senior at Brighton High School, Fatima Bawany '15 has been looking for ways to inspire the young refugees with whom she volunteers. Now, thanks to a $10,000 grant from Davis Projects for Peace, the University of Rochester undergraduate will launch a summer enrichment program that includes a retreat focused on nonviolent communication education, a photography project called Voices of Hope, and a workshops on educational opportunities after high school.

Bawany was eligible for the Projects for Peace grant as a result of the University's recent acceptance into the Davis United World College Scholars Program. As a partner school, the University was able to nominate two proposals for the summer grant, which funds student-designed and student-led grassroots projects that promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. Each year, 100 projects are funded, with at least one from each Davis school. In the inaugural competition at Rochester, nearly two dozen undergraduate students submitted nine individual and group projects set in a variety of countries across four continents; these were reviewed by a campus committee this past winter, and the applicants were interviewed before the top two proposals were selected for submission to the national competition.

Belinda Redden, director of Fellowships, began investigating the opportunity for Rochester students to earn Projects for Peace Fellowships in 2011. "I see it as part of my job to expand high-quality fellowship opportunities for our students," Redden said, recalling the many students who had come to see her in the past in search of funding to do projects similar to the kind of initiatives the peace grant was designed to support.

Redden said the Davis campus committee was immediately impressed with both Bawany and her project, noting her deep background in cross-cultural and youth-development work as well as her passionate commitment. "One aspect of this project that we especially liked is the focus on empowering the youth participants to propose their own actions and evaluate their peers' proposals to help improve cross-cultural understanding and cooperation in their communities," Redden explained. "Fatima is not interested in merely imparting knowledge but in facilitating the development of practical skills so these often marginalized youths can see themselves as agents of their own lives."