2019 Fellowships
Our Fellows Will Support a Start-Up for Social Change!
Peace Fellows play a key role in helping their hosts to launch and manage innovative pilot projects that will eventually remove a root cause of marginalization and benefit the entire society. In 2018, Peace Fellows raised $23,000 for AP-supported start-ups, and eased the pressure of thousand of individuals and family members.
Fellowship #1 – Build accessible toilets for students with disabilities in northern Uganda
Help the Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU) to build four accessible toilets at the Abaka primary school. Based in Gulu town, Uganda.
Fellowship #2 – Bring peace to warring pastoralists in northwest Kenya
Help the Children Peace Initiative Kenya (CPIK) to end conflict between Samburu and Turkana pastoralists in Samburu County. Based in Nairobi and Maralal, Kenya.
Fellowship #3 – End child marriage in Zimbabwe
Work with the Women Advocacy Project (WAP) to advance their “Ambassadors Against Child Marriage” program that protects girls from early marriage in Zimbabwe. Based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Fellowship #4 – Empower Agent Orange caregivers in Vietnam
Help the Association for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (AEPD) to design a micro-finance program for women caregivers of Agent Orange Victims. Based in Dong Hoi, Vietnam.
Fellowship #5 – End menstrual banishment in Nepal
Work with the Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development (CAED) to free mothers and girls from the dangerous practice of menstrual banishment known as chhaupadi in Nepal. Based in Surkhet District, Nepal.