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International House Times 7 As Seen on Facebook..... In Memoriam: Residents "Click" with Peace Projects Worldwide 2008 Peace Camp & Peace Center-Cambodia /Ana T. Villarreal Writing Workshop-Cambodia/ Aaron Sorenson Safe Water for a Safe World-India/ Ayse Ercumen Sastimasa: Education for Liberation-Kosovo/Sina AkhavaOn 2009 Microblogging for Peace-India/ Usree Bhattacharya 2010 Healthy Ka Pamilya-Philippines/Jacqueline Barin Outdoctrination-Ethiopia/Jason Atwood 2011 Mobile Library for Peace-India/Aravind Unni Empowering Citizens with Environmental Awareness-Sri Lanka Lisa Fleming & Andrew Stokols 2012 Finding Common Ground-Israel/Palestine/Dana DePietro Light from Below-Panama/Oscar Diaz & Nestor Moreno Semillas del Futuro-Guatemala/Germán Macias & Catalina Saldivia 2013 Clicking Together-India/Shiv Tandan & Hannah Yang 2014 Recycle Up-Ghana/Manuel Schulze & Torben Fischer Revitalizing Learning Spaces for Children Affected by Haiyan Alinaya Fabros For more information on IH Berkeley Peace Projects, visit ihouse.berkeley.edu/programs/davis.php Since 2008, residents of I-House Berkeley have participated with other scholars affiliated with 12 other I-House communities to implement "Projects for Peace" made possible through the auspices of an extraordinary philanthropist, Kathryn Wasserman Davis (see obituary at right), who decided on her 100th birthday, to give $10,000 grants to young people around the world who could think creatively about working towards peace. At the Fall 2013 Sunday Supper, resident Hannah Yang, an undergraduate student in International Development Studies and Business Administration, shared her experience with Clicking Together, her 2013 Davis Project for Peace. Children from two neighboring schools in Ambala, India were brought together in a four-week-long photography camp to explore class divides through the medium of photography. Hannah credits her experience living at I-House for her perseverance with the project. "I was confident that our students, who come from diverse socioeconomic, religious and cultural backgrounds, would become friends mainly because I remember how quickly people from over 100 different countries became friends during the semester I stayed at International House at UC Berkeley." n Manuel Schulze (far left) and Torben Fischer's project, Recycle Up! Creating Local Solutions for the Plastic Waste Problem in Ghana strives to provide a better understanding of the potentially adverse effects of excessive plastic waste pollution and to develop sustainable solutions in the Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana. Alinaya Fabros' project in Eastern Samar, Philippines, Revitalizing Learning Spaces for Children Affected by Typhoon Haiyan aims to contribute to the recovery of the children affected by the typhoon through targeted activities for children and their care-givers. Alinaya is inspired by her vision of what could arise if the survivors of the Haiyan tragedy imagine and re-build their peaceful, stable community. n 2014 IH Berkeley Peace Projects to Aid Ghana and the Philippines Projects for Peace founder and author, philanthropist and scholar, Kathryn Wasserman Davis passed away on April 23, 2013, at her home at the age of 106. Kathryn Wasserman Davis celebrated her 100th birthday in 2007 by contributing $1,000,000 to fund one hundred student- run Projects for Peace. "I want to use my 100th birthday to help young people launch some immediate initiatives—things that they can do during the summer—that will bring new thinking to the prospects of peace in the world." Mrs. Davis graciously invited residents of International Houses to participate in 2008. The Davis family is continuing Projects for Peace this Summer in her honor. Since its founding, Projects for Peace has funded more than 830 projects in more than 100 countries. Mrs. Davis and her late husband, Shelby Cullom Davis, US Ambassador to Switzerland (1969-1975), met on a train headed for Geneva in 1930 and quickly discovered a shared interest in world affairs. Following a courtship at I-House New York where both lived while working on their Masters' degrees at Columbia University, the couple married on January 4th, 1932. After her husband's death in 1994, Mrs. Davis dedicated herself to philanthropy, with a primary focus on international education and world peace. She challenged today's students, whom she referred to as "the real movers and shakers" to work together toward lasting peace. "There will always be conflict," she noted. "But I'll remind you that love, kindness, and support are also part of human nature. My challenge to you is to bring about a mindset of preparing for peace instead of preparing for war." For more about Kathryn Wasserman Davis, see davisprojectsforpeace.org. Davis Projects for Peace Awards from I-House Berkeley Hannah Yang (and her project partner Shiv Tandan) with Clicking Together participants in Ambala, India

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