On March 16th, UF Children’s Hope India won a $10,000 national grant on behalf of Davis Projects for Peace. The funding will be used to initiate our new microfinance venture in Shadipur Depot, India.

In its third year, Davis Projects for Peace, is an invitation to undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to design grassroots projects that they will implement during the summer of 2009. The projects judged to be the most promising and do-able will be funded at $10,000 each. The objective is to encourage and support today’s motivated youth to create and tryout their own ideas for building peace.

To learn more about Projects for Peace: http://www.kwd100projectsforpeace.org/
To learn more about the Microfinance Project: http://www.ufchi.org/projects/microfinance-venture/