Alumni at Work
Connecting. Collaborating. Educating. Engaging...Changing the World. Every Day. This section is dedicated to the work of World Partnerships alumni, the "New Generation" of global leaders. Click below and learn about World Partnerships alumni projects around the world!
Business
Education
The Foundation for Skills Development (Nigeria) is a vocational, technical and entreprenurship training institute that has succeeded in training thousands of Nigerians and ensured their economic empowerment through hands on training programs. Transforming lives through skills development, and turning dreams into reality...every day in Nigeria, led by our World Partnerships alum Omowale Ogunrinde!
"Breaking the mold" in education everyday in Palestine, IVLP Gold Star alum Aref Husseini arrived at World Partnerships to explore STEM and education innovation in the Tampa Bay area . Visit the "Al Nayzak" Science and Technology House and view the 10th anniversary video to see how Aref and his team are bringing ideas and innovation to the next generation of Palestinian leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics! Watch this video to hear his story about his path-breaking work for future scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs in the Palestinian Territories, and the impact of his original IVLP visit to the US.
Human Rights
Alumnus Anwesha Majumder says about her grassroots work with child laborers and trafficked youth in India: "I learned that if you talk, you are a bystander; if you do, you are a leader." She joined the Child In Need Institute - India (CINI) to make a difference at the grassroots level, a world where she encountered brothels, small trafficking businesses and beggars networks, and myriad human rights violations.
'Born This Way' Chronicles Plight of LGBTs in Cameroon: An article featuring the amazing and dedicated work of our alumnus Alice Nkomin Cameroon and Central Africa...
Media
World Partnerships alum José Peralta Morales from Uruguay, attended a CJFE Journalism Fellowship in Canada. He took a trip to Cuba and came back with interviews about press freedom in Cuba. Check out his article "Cuba Libre?"
Watch this news clip from Bangladesh, with World Partnerships alum Mostafa Jamal Poplu, live in his studio!
Special Needs students at PSE time. Belizean broadcast journalist Jose Sanchez tells a beautiful story about human beings helping other human beings to succeed. A news story that should mean something to us all.
The US government announced a $1-million reward for information “leading to the dismantling” of a key wildlife crime network exposed in "Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade" - investigative journalism by World Partnerships alum Julian Rademeyer!
Learn about Red Basil, a new Palestinian export to the US market...from alum and journalist Jameel Dababat, whose reporting always tells a story, and teaches us something.
This haunting, stunning photo is part of a project, called "Syrian Bedtime Stories" by alumnus Khaled El-Ekhetyar and a group of Syrian journalists. Its multimedia format combines photography and stories from the Syrian front.
Medical
In 2008, these three remarkable activists - part of an IVLP group of 28 physicians, health care professionals, non-profit leaders – came to World Partnerships on a worldwide project to build capacity for breast cancer awareness and treatment. They reunited in 2014 at the Apollo Cancer Conclave in India share their experiences in awareness-raising for breast cancer. Follow the remarkable work of Feza Sengel (Turkey), Biba Dodeva (Macedonia), and Neerja Malik (India)!
Politics
Congratulations to our friend and World Partnerships alumnus Adlene Meddi on the launch of "El Watan 2014", covering Algeria's 2014 electoral cycle! Learn more at: www.elwatan2014.com
Check out some Insights into today's Brazil in a blog written by alumnus Humberto Adami Santos Junior, a noted jurist and scholar.
Public Services
Science
Sustainability
Christopher Mwambingu, an alum from Kenya, is Executive Director of the Taita Resource Center in Mwatate. He celebrated his birthday at a children's rescue center to plant some trees:
"Imagine if every birthday each one of us plant equal number of trees to the number of years we have lived on Earth.The world would remain green forever, full of life,with no hunger and climate change disasters."
"Imagine if every birthday each one of us plant equal number of trees to the number of years we have lived on Earth.The world would remain green forever, full of life,with no hunger and climate change disasters."
UPCYCLE! Repurposing waste for a greener future...courtesy of Green The Gap Collective led by alum Vimlendu Jha, and the creative thinkers of the India's "New Generation!" Green The Gap Collective was recently selected for the 2013 "India Green Business Award"!
"You can live without a temple or a road, but not water." Watch the video featuring our World Partnerships Alumnus Vimlendu Jha, founder of Swechha - We For Change, in India.
Access to clean water is the foundation of so much life...there are so many solutions, but getting them to where they are needed is challenging - and absolutely essential...one of the many stories from alumnus Umar Weswala and The Community Agenda in Uganda...
Technology/Energy
World Partnerships alum Sun Mao Chao brings sustainable and renewable power to rural communities through EcoSun, a social enterprise working to provide sustainable energy/ electricity solutions for people and communities in Cambodia. Mao was formerly with the Cambodia Rural Development Team, an NGO committed to protecting the environment and improving food security in rural communities in the Lower Mekong region.
Read "Pakistan's Internet Landscape" written by our World Partnerships Alumnus Jahanzaib Haque.