CLEAN PEACE: STUDENT CREATES JOBS FOR YOUTHS IN ETHIOPIA
With a $10,000 grant and an idea Telavive Taye '17 returned to her childhood home of Hawassa, Ethiopia, to create an enterprise she hoped would promote peace and prosperity. Photo from Davidson College The recipient of a Projects for Peace grant from the Davis United World Scholars Program, Taye established a car wash managed completely by and for youth, with the goal of engaging them in a productive business in a growing city with high rates of unemployment. In fact, official estimates place the country's rate of youth unemployment at more than 50 percent. As a partner to the Davis program, Davidson's Center for Civic Engagement solicits project applications from Davidson students and submits the most outstanding ones to the Davis program for consideration. The program seeks grassroots projects that promote peace and address the causes of conflict. Taye, a biology major who plans to attend medical school, moved with her family in 2005 from their home in Hawassa