IR/PS Students Highlighted at Clinton Global Initiative University
Community service touted at Clinton event
04/04/2011
Gary Robbins,
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Matt Severson taps his iPad, filling the screen with photos of smiling children. He’s selling the idea of hope in a country not known for it: Tanzania.
The east African nation is among the poorest in the world. Families struggle to raise money to put their children through public school. Severson, a senior at Brown University, sees that as an opportunity.
“We’re trying to get people to use our website to donate money to pay these kids’ school bills,’’ said Severson, who co-founded a nonprofit known as The School Fund. “It is a transparent and effective way to do things.’’
He is promoting the program this weekend at the University of California San Diego, where 1,100 student delegates from 90 countries are attending the Clinton Global Initiative University, a launch pad for community service ideas.
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Click here to read more about MPIA students Erica Jue, Marisa Elisa Martinez, and Lila Petersen's project, "Lighting up Post-Disaster communities," a semi-finalist in the CGI U Commitments Challenge.
Clinton Global Initiative University 2011 Official Website
