Seniors' development plan for Tanzanian town named Project for Peace

Two Bates seniors have received a 2009 Davis Projects for Peace award for their plan to create an economic stimulus project in an African village.

Sam Nagourney of New York and Jacob Nudel of Woodbridge, Conn., will use the $10,000 grant to create an educational animal husbandry program and microcredit operation in Shimbwe, a village in the Mount Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. [More…]