GPE conducts one or more student-run sustainable development projects every year at varying locations across the world. We work with local partners and meet their needs by using the skill sets of our students.
Please visit location links below to learn more about our projects.
Ghana (2007-2008)
Rwanda (2008-present)
Guatemala (2008-present)
Thailand (2009)
Isabel Callejas, the director of GPE’s Bukomero program in Rwanda, was recently awarded the Boren Scholarship. Isabel, born in Miami and raised in Nicaragua, joined GPE’s team in 2007. She plans to use the scholarship to study Kiswahili in Tanzania. This prestigious scholarship provides unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add [...]
On assignment from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Douglass Casson Coutts is a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, College of Human Sciences at Auburn University. He is developing and teaching Auburn’s first undergraduate course on “World Hunger: Causes, Consequences and Responses,” assisting in designing a Hunger Studies Minor area [...]
Summer 2010 GPE plans include a return trip to Guatemala where our students plan to return to the satellite campus of the Universidad Del Valle de Guatemala “Proseur” to provide English education, teacher training, and lesson plan creation as well as curriculum development for the teachers at the University; with the large demand for English [...]
Project applications are now available for both the Rwanda and Guatemala Projects!
Summer 2010 Rwanda Application
Summer 2010 Guatemala Application
Applications are due to director@globalpeaceexchange.org or if printed, drop them off at GPE’s Dunlap office by Friday January 8th, 2010
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A design that reflects our principles and ideals!
- we are a student run international development organization that works toward implementing sustainable development projects around the world.
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