Students in Africa | Harvard Magazine

Institutional factors have made it easier for Harvard students to go abroad.

In her home city of Ibadan, Nigeria, Oluwadara Johnson ’10 runs a performing-arts-themed camp for disadvantaged girls.

Combating malaria by distributing bed nets in Sierra Leone

A short-term stint volunteering at an orphanage in Uganda turns into much more.

Working with local residents to bring vertical agriculture to Nairobi’s Kibera slum

Students and service at a new frontier

Grace Ryan ’10 films a documentary on mental-health care, and the debate over reform, in Accra, Ghana.

In Agyementi, Ghana, Sangu Delle ’10 brings clean water to a village.

In a refugee camp near Nakuru, Kenya, Megan Shutzer ’10 learns that fallout from the 2007 election violence persists.

In Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, Elisa Nabel ’11 makes a film about childhood and innocence.

Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 focuses on HIV prevention, sexual health, and women’s empowerment in Arusha, Tanzania.

At “slave castles” and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

The social-engagement initiative in the department of African and African American studies combines studies with service.