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‘Children of Kabul’
April 13, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.
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One Day Without Shoes
April 11, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
On April 10, more than 180 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children in sub-Saharan Africa who walk to school without shoes.
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Wake ‘n Shake 2012
March 27, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
More than 1,000 students danced in Reynolds Gym as part of the seventh annual Wake ‘n Shake Dance Marathon. The event raises money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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Kony 2012: a student’s firsthand experience
March 9, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Hunter DeKoninck knows firsthand the horror inflicted by Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA). DeKoninck, a senior, traveled to Northern Uganda last summer on a Richter scholarship. There, he helped rehabilitate soldiers abducted into the guerilla leader’s forces.
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Class leads to fundraising, volunteering
March 6, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
Schools of Business students are exemplifying Wake Forest’s motto of Pro Humanitate by applying skills they are learning in their “Dynamics in Organizations” class to support a local non-profit agency.
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Peace Corps recognizes WFU
February 21, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories
The Peace Corps ranks Wake Forest among the Top 25 Top Peace Corps Volunteer Producing Colleges and Universities – an annual list of the schools which provide volunteers to the organization. This year, Wake Forest is ranked 20th among small colleges and universities.
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Service shapes Liang’s future
January 23, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Spending her Saturdays with Winston-Salem’s homeless has led to Amy Liang creating a documentary film, doing research and building countless relationships. Perhaps most important, it has focused her on studying public health and finding solutions.
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Student Storyteller: Service trip guides career path
January 4, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For most of senior Meredith-Leigh Pleasants’ young adult life, she was sure that she would follow the straight and narrow career path. But her journey took a right turn in the summer of 2011 after she spent three weeks in Zinkwazi, South Africa.
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Student Storyteller: Guatemala
December 28, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Summer research in Guatemala had been a dream for David Inczauskis (’13) for as long as he could remember. Last summer, through a Reynolds Scholarship at Wake Forest, Inczauskis lived that dream by researching two influential non-governmental organizations in Guatemala.
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Experience inspires outreach
December 22, 2011 | Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Inspiration often comes in unlikely places. For Paul Loeser, a senior cross-country runner, his epiphany hit while on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Loeser was working with Athletes in Action’s Urban Project when he got the idea to replicate a program he saw there when he returned to Winston-Salem.
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