Beyond the Classroom: Fall 2020 GCC Student Work
Naag Nool Scholars
Young Somali women in Kismayo, Somalia, participating in the Naag Nool Scholars program will have the opportunity to be mentored and learn directly from successful female professionals in Somalia. The goal of this program is to close the gender gap of employment in Kismayo, Somalia through education, training and high-quality mentorship.
Inheritance and Legacy in Mni Sota
In the land of clear waters, the waters aren’t so clear anymore. As inhabitants of Mni Sota Makoce, we have inherited beautiful landscapes rich with resources — what will we leave behind for future generations?
Peritoneal Dialysis--Creating Awareness by Reinforcing Education (PD CARE)
Accessibility to life-saving kidney dialysis treatment is very limited in Uganda and the use of peritoneal dialysis (PD) could help alleviate some of the financial burden associated with receiving dialysis treatment. PD CARE aims to educate patients and their families on what peritoneal dialysis is and why the patient needs the treatment, as well as train them on how to clean and monitor the patient's catheter to prevent peritonitis. By empowering and educating patients, this project aims to reduce some of the financial and cultural barriers associated with peritoneal dialysis in order to make dialysis treatment more accessible for patients.
#LandBack
Land Back is more than a hashtag, it is a movement to reclaim Indigenous futures. This project follows historic and contemporary policies impacting Dakota land reclamation, spotlighting Zani Otunwe.
The Education You Never Learned
Join us for a 10-minute video tour of the indigenous history of Mni Sota Makoce, the place many of us call home. We will teach you a little bit about places and history you never learned in K-12 education.
Ecoturismo Brasil!
We are rapidly losing biodiversity and natural resources due to human interferences in our biosphere. Ecoturismo Brasil! is a novel way to use ecotourism to help combat loss of biodiversity in the Amazon river basin.
Mindanao Motherhood
We have proposed implementing a program in Mindanao, the Philippines that will provide women, mostly poor and rural, with a hub that can connect them to a wide variety of resources. These resources will help with general and reproductive healthcare, with an emphasis on family planning and empowerment within their relationships.
Ways of Knowing: Seeking Clarity through Education and Allyship
Seeking to become better allies to Indigenous peoples, our group reflects on our science and history educations. We also explore how scientific mindsets, Indigenous languages, and our relationships to land are deeply interconnected with learning more holistic ways of knowing.
E4E: Energy for Everyone
E4E is about empowering the people of Chad through access to energy. Our goal is to overall improve the livelihood, health, and growth of Chadian citizens and communities through innovative thinking and community participation, while fulfilling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Healthy Entrepreneurs and Lifestyle Education (HEALED)
HEALED is a multidisciplinary and integrative approach created to address the growing rise in non-communicable diseases, specifically diabetes, in Kampala, Uganda. By centering our curriculum on decreasing binge drinking in order to promote the health of male entrepreneurs aged 18-29, we hope to help mitigate some of the risk factors of diabetes that can be caused by alcohol abuse.
No Shame in the Brain
No Shame in the Brain is a storytelling website that allows members of the Somali community in Rochester who have been affected by the opioid epidemic to share their story. Through this website, we hope that stigma will become a nonissue when it comes to addiction and getting help.
Western and Indigenous Science
Much of what we consider to be "science" excludes the wealth of indigenous knowledge. This is knowledge which has been acquired through generations of interaction with the land, and which is deeply coded in indigenous language, making efforts to preserve indigenous knowledge necessarily ones of language preservation as well.
Melting Colonization: Fighting Oppression
Have you ever felt overwhelmed and underinformed about de-colonizing work? The goal of this project is to help empower our peers, friends, and community members who want to help, but don't know how to get started.