FSD in the News
Winter 2007
FSD
established partnerships with Stanford University,
the University of Southern California,
and Boston College
to offer groups of students Service Learning Trips throughout the Global South.
Click here
to read more about the University Partnerships FSD has cultivated in recent
months!
Fall 2007
FSD established partnerships with the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of San Francisco, Emory University, and Duke
University to provide over 45 fellowship opportunities for students to
engage in development in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Click on the links to
learn more about the opportunities at each university.
Fall 2007
Kate Vyborny, a Foundation Fellow from University
of Georgia and 2003 FSD summer intern
in youth development in Ambato, Ecuador won a 2008 Rhodes Scholarship and will be attending Oxford
University. Click here to read more.
Summer 2007
Justin Eppley - founder of EdgeWise magazine and FSD intern Mombasa,
Kenya - created
an e-commerce website with his organization (LICODEP). The site allows local
craftspeople to sell their high-quality goods directly to consumers around the
world. To view Justin's website, click
here.
Summer 2007
Lisa Zhu, a student at the University
of Pennsylvania and an FSD summer
intern in Jinja, Uganda,
worked with a local organization (ECOVIC) and the Ugandan Fisheries Development
(UFD) to start an eco-tourism business on Lake Victoria.
To read an article written in a local Ugandan newspaper about Lisa's work, click here.
Summer 2007
FSD announces two new partnerships for summer 2007 with Gettysburg College and Northwestern University. Students from these two schools will spend their summers in Nicaragua (Gettysburg)
and Uganda
(Northwester) after spending the semester learning about development issues and
their host country. Click on the schools to get more information about each
partnership.
May 2007
FSD was recently mentioned in a USA
today article, which outlined why an international internship can be an
excellent career investment. "Career-planning experts say such experience
is an increasingly popular way to get "résumé radiance." Because 84%
of college students say they'll do at least one
internship before graduating, many now aim to distinguish themselves with
experience tailored to a global economy." Click here to read more.
April 2007
Keren G. Raz, a 2005 graduate of University
of Arizona and 2003 FSD summer intern
in Puno, Peru, won a Root-Tilden-Kern
scholarship to New York University School of Law. The full-tuition scholarship
is awarded each year to 20 incoming students who intend to pursue careers in
public service.
April 2007
Morgan Alen will enter the American University Washington College of Law’s
class of ’10 with a Public Interest/ Public Service (PIPS) Scholarship. This is
a three year, full scholarship to law school. Morgan served as an FSD Program
Coordinator in Bolivia, Argentina and Uganda.
March 26, 2007
Maital Friedman, a graduating senior from Princeton
University and 2005 FSD summer intern
in Mbale, Uganda, received the Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize. The $25,000 fellowship will support Maital for 12 months in Mbale, while she further develops the library she built at a local
school with FSD. Click here to read more.
February 20, 2007
Elan Emmanuel, a law student at the University
of California, Berkeley
received an internship at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Elan served as a 2006 intern and Program Coordinator for FSD in Kakamega, Kenya - an
experience that deepened his commitment to human rights efforts in Africa.
November 27, 2006
Adrian Johnston, a Morehead fellow from University
of North Carolina and 2003 FSD summer
intern in human rights in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England. Click here to read more.
November 19, 2006
Ben Lundin, a graduating senior from University
of North Carolina and 2004 FSD summer
intern in Puno, Peru,
has won a 2007 Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England. He will study
international relations at Oxford
and further build on the international experience he gained through FSD . Click here to read more.
June 13, 2006
Eric Leroux, an FSD summer 2005 intern in Kakamega, Kenya and All
Ivy League Goalie at Princeton
University received the
Hockey Humanitarian Award. The award which
recognizes an outstanding college hockey player for his or her strong commitment
to community, team and academics. For more about his work as an HIV/AIDS counselor with FSD, click here.
May 30, 2006
FRONTLINE - an award-winning PBS documentary show interviews the founder of The
Aids Support Organization (TASO). When Noerine Kaleeba founded TASO in 1987, it was the first HIV/AIDS NGO in Uganda. Today
it is a thriving success story and one of FSD's host organizations in Mbale, Uganda. To read the interview, click here.
April 27, 2006
The San Francisco Chronicle discusses the growing involvement of elite American
universities supporting the fight against global poverty. To read the article, click here.
March 27, 2006
COLUMNS - a campus newspaper at the University
of Georgia describes the experiences
of seven Georgia
students who participated in the Summer 2005 Internship Program. To read the article, click here.
January 23, 2006
Sam Watulatsu - the Uganda Program Director for FSD - wins the 2005 Brass Band
World Award. He is the first African to win the prestigious award and will
attend the ceremony in London,
England. Sam is
also the Executive Director of the Foundation for Development of Needy
Communities (FDNC) - one of FSD's host organizations. FDNC that runs a skills development centre
for female school drop outs, orphans and other needy children. To read the
article, click
here.
January, 2006
Johanna Matsui, a veteran of the Summer 2005 Internship Program describes her work with Society for
Orphans Against AIDS Network (SOAAN) in Mombasa,
Kenya. The
article is featured in the University
of Pittsburgh's Graduate
School of Public and International Affairs Winter Newsletter. To read the
article, please click here.
March 9,2004
FSD has been the subject of an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Anyone interested in hearing an outside perspective of our organization should read it here.
See the links to the left for more news items and for our current and past
newsletters.
Read about FSD Volunteers in the Local News!
Click on the articles below to read about FSD Interns in Ecuador (in Spanish):
La Hora - March 8, 2006
El Heraldo - March 13,
2006
El Heraldo - August 10,
2004
FSD in Ecuador - 2004
Click here to download FSD's
August 18th, 2004 Press Release
Click here to download FSD's
June 23rd, 2004 Press Release
