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2005-2006 Participants Please scroll over the map below to find out where our participants are spending their semesters abroad.
Susan is a junior undergraduate student at Duke University. She hails from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is majoring in Political Science and minoring in Spanish and African and African-American Studies. Through her coursework and after graduation, she hopes to pursue her interests in racial/ethnic identity, education, and social policy. Susan first became involved in service-learning through her freshman FOCUS program, Humanitarian Challenges at Home and Abroad. Through this program, she volunteered at A New Day, a juvenile day reporting center for middle-school students who have been suspended from their home schools. In the spring of her freshman year, Susan took Jennifer Ahern-Dodson's "Civic Engagement" course and trained to become a service-learning facilitator for Duke's Learning through Experience, Action, Partnership, and Service program. After her freshman year, Susan participated in the Duke-Durham Scholars program, in which she worked at a day-camp at First Calvary Baptist Church and conducted a community-based research project on Civic Education. In her sophomore year, Susan had the opportunity to volunteer as an English as a Second Language tutor at E.K. Powe Elementary and as a tutor at the Durham Scholars Program. She has also become involved with Carter Community School, a small charter school in the Walltown neighborhood. Along with another undergraduate, Susan organized volunteer-taught elective courses for the school's elementary students. With funding from Scholarship with a Civic Mission, she conducted another community-based research project to better organize and institutionalize the volunteer programs at Carter. In the fall semester of junior year, Susan participated in a program in Southern Peru that explored cultural identity through literature and the arts. As part of her service component for SEE! The World, she worked with a non-governmental organization focusing on indigenous or Afro-Peruvian rights and/or with local school children. Susan worked with El Centro de Desarrollo Étnico , which works within the Afroperuvian population on issues such as health, education, civil rights, etc, and LUNDU , an Afroperuvian youth organization. Susan is continuing her service in Durham with Durham CAN.
Nikki worked for an NGO called Kimirina , which means "together to make a difference" in Kichwa, and is the central force behind a growing movement to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in Ecuador . She is continuing her service in Durham with WIC (Women, Infant and Child).
Sarah Stephens worked for Las Tres Mauelas , a state organization that works with the children of sex workers and la Cruz Roja , the Red Cross. She is continuing her service in Durham with WIC (Women, Infant and Child).
Gretchen is a current junior at Duke, studying religion as a major and visual arts as a minor. Following graduation she hopes to take a year off from studies to either volunteer through AmeriCorps or through the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, of which she is member. She then hopes to return to her studies at divinity school or theological seminary, achieve a masters in Divinity, and eventually work as an associate in ministry, which involves working with community outreach and youth ministry, among other activities, within a church community. She is from west of Cleveland, Ohio. Gretchen became involved in a religious group on campus, the Duke Lutherans, and although she began her college career as a die-hard pre-med student, she found a passion in religious studies and enjoys her major very much. Through the Duke Lutherans, she has volunteered at a nursing home in Durham, gone gleaning (picking crops that would have otherwise been discarded), and made a trip to a soup kitchen in Durham. In addition, she went on her first mission trip to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she was involved with disaster prevention and other social services. Her mission trip provided the direction she needed, so much that she feels extremely inspired by this sort of work, and she is determined to be involved in mission work for many years to come. Through her other activities on campus, including club tennis and her sorority, Gretchen has done a variety of volunteer activities. Along with other members of club tennis, she helped to establish the Duke Durham Tennis Project, an after school tennis program for local kids. Tennis, often a sport unaffordable for many families, is a passion of hers, which she was able to share with others. Through her sorority, she participated in a number of fundraising events raising money for her sorority's national philanthropy, Service for Sight, which aids those with blindness or other related ailments. Gretchen studied in Edinburgh, Scotland last semester and participated in a student-run organization called Children's Holiday Venture, which provides after school entertainment for underprivileged youth.
Sarah Schnee Sarah worked on a project funded by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid (Madrid´s municipal government) to provide low-income single young mothers or mothers-to-be with the support they need to raise their children in supportive environments so that their children can fight the statistics which tell them that they will most likely end up jobless, in jail, on drugs, or all of the above.
Michelle Roy Michelle taught English at a local elementary school in Madrid once a week. She is continuing her service in Durham by teaching ESL.
Harshada Rajani Harshada worked with Lauren at "Fundacion Triangulo" or the Triangle Foundation, which is the center for homosexual and transgender population. The organization does various activities around Madrid to raise awareness about safe sex practices and STDs. She is continuing her service in Durham by teaching a dance class at the WECC.
Lauren worked with Harshada at "Fundacion Triangulo". The bulk of their service project with involved handing out condoms in "high risk" areas in Madrid. She is originally from Indianapolis, IN. She is continuing her service in Durham by working with Big Brothers, Big Sisters.
Juliet recently studied abroad in Florence, Italy. Juliet has been involved with service-learning at Duke since her freshman year, and she is currently working on the the publicity campaign for SEE!
John Bailey John worked in an orphanage in Luoyang, Henan in central China. His service project wasworking with the part of the orphanage that helps children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, mostly cerebral palsy. He also helped them make materials to broaden the reach of their services to other parts of China.
Scott Sorrell Scott worked on his ISP and on International Refugee law and the Tibetan situation during his semester abroad. He presented his project to the Tibetans in Exile who run the Center for Human Rights and Democracy. He also taught English. Scott is continuing his service in Durham with TABLE or Healing Expressions.
Linda Arnade Linda has worked briefly with a physician who runs an NGO called Helping Hands, which helps sell products of smaller NGO’s micro-finance projects (like making pillows, bead work, etc.) She is working with a children's health education project and Planned Parenthood in Durham.
Trisha Bailey While in South Africa, Trisha found a small group that traveled to Baphumelele, a children’s home in Khayelitsha (a black township 20 km’s outside of the city). They visited the orphanage, which housed 120 children (most of whom were AIDS orphans) 2 days a week for 5 hours. Trisha volunteered at the orphanage. During the weekends, she worked with “Young Women’s Movement” (YWM).
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Nicole Arkin 
Sarah Stephens 
Gretchen Ferber
Lauren Ostendorf 
Juliet Kline