The Education of Yohanne Kidolezi The life-affirming, almost mythical journey of a young man from Tanzania. Follow the story of a UWC scholar as he travels from his home in Tanzania to Middlebury College in Vermont.   “Davis Cup” Honor Goes to Westminster College Internationalizing Aids Recruitment: “I’m Coming Because of That” Profound changes are unfolding at a small Missouri college that has set itself to developing an international campus community. Last fall, students from 55 non-U.S. nations made up 12 percent of Westminster College’s 950-member student body.... (continued)   100 Ways to Make a Difference Kathryn W. Davis Creates “Projects for Peace” Initiative To mark her 100th birthday, in a year when she also received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, Kathryn W. Davis decided to do more. ..... (continued)   Davis UWC Scholars Become Fellows at the Monterey Institute A Special Chance to Learn at a Globally Focused School It was a natural match. The Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in California is among the most international learning communities in higher education: ..... (continued)   Davis Philanthropy Leverages Other Donors One objective of the Davis UWC Scholars Program is to leverage the philanthropy of others. Here are two examples, one at Amherst and one at the University of Florida. New scholarship initiatives inspired by or modeled on the Davis UWC Scholars Program will provide exciting support for the studies of promising international students. .... (continued)   Taking Aim at AIDS AIDS Took a Scholar’s Parents; Now, She Takes Aim at the Virus When Chikoti Mibenge’s father died in Kitwe, Zambia, she and her younger brother were told he’d been a victim of witchcraft. When her mother took sick, Chikoti, then 17, cared for her as her condition worsened. .... (continued)   From Horror to Hope — with Hard Work An Afghan Scholar Aims to Repay What He Has Received Colby College sophomore Qiamuddin Amiry sums up his life under the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a time of emptiness, grinding labor, and periodic horror.... (continued)   When Home Is a Camp A Sahrawi Scholar Recalls a Country She’s Never Seen Senia Bachir-Abderahman (Western Sahara, Red Cross Nordic UWC, Mt. Holyoke ‘10) grew up in a tent. Her family’s tent is in a giant refugee camp, home to 159,000 people, in a remote desert region of Algeria... (continued)   A Commitment to the Most Vulnerable Kids Julia Neubauer Co-Creates a Visionary Charity There 18 million street children in India. There are six young women from six different nations on the board of the Ashraya Initiative for Children... (continued)   Making Change, Person to Person Colby Team Connects with a Crowd of Learners in India Last January more than two dozen students from Colby College, including three Davis UWC Scholars, traveled to a school named for Mahatma Gandhi in northeastern India to teach 250 young people music, dance, poetry, English, and current world issues....(continued)