A Voice For the Voiceless

The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

The Impact of Service



"I look at myself as having the potential to be as strong and caring as the amazing women I met in Kenya."

Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa.

For more 2009 feedback click here.

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Monsoon time in Delhi, India with 2011 AP Peace Fellow Clara Kollm. Clara worked with a group of wastepickers through her host organization, Chintan.

AP began recruiting graduate students with professional experience to volunteer with partner organizations in 2003. In the years since, 210 Peace Fellows have served in 40 countries (listed below). They are chosen for their skills, which correspond closely to the needs of community-based advocates. They serve for periods of up to a year, and continue to promote the work of their host after they return. In the process, they acquire new skills, enhance their academic credentials, and lay the foundation for a career of service. We measure these impacts, through evaluations at the end of training and after deployment.






A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PEACE FELLOW

Experience public transportation in Nepal with Chelsea Ament (WRRP, 2011)


Follow Kristen Maryn as she discovers Kenya's landscape and wildlife (Hakijami, 2011)

Join Catherine Binet as she helps harvest potatoes in Peru (EPAF, 2011)


Help peace fellows Samantha Hammer and Kerry McBroom make Flia, a traditional Kosovar Roma dish (Prograek, 2011)



LONG TERM FELLOWSHIPS (6 MONTHS OR LONGER)


Susan Craig-Greene
UK
Megan Orr
Kenya

WHERE FELLOWS HAVE WORKED

Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Belize, Bosnia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cameroun, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, DRC-Congo, Ecuador,  Ethiopia, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Ghana, Guatemala,  India, Jordan, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liberia, Macedonia, Namibia, Nepal, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, UK


THE VALUE OF A PEACE FELLOWSHIP




“I feel completely enriched by this experience. It has added complexity, dimension and understanding to who I am and the way I experience the world.”

Nicole Farkouh (UC Berkley) volunteered for the Women's Reproductive Rights NepalProgram as a Peace Fellow in Nepal in 2007 and 2008. Nicole played a key role in publicizing the condition of uterine prolapse, which affects over 600,000 women. Read more about  this campaign.






 

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