NORTON, Mass.—Marguerite Dooley ’15, a senior at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. and a native of Brattleboro, Vt., has won a prestigious Projects for Peace grant to open a program for homeless and at-risk youth in her hometown.
Projects for Peace grants provide undergraduates at American colleges and universities with $10,000 each to implement projects that seek to promote peace, resolve conflict and build understanding.
Dooley, a political science major with minors in community health and psychology, will apply her grant toward establishing a summer program for children and teens who are currently homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. She is partnering with Brooks Memorial Library and other agencies in Brattleboro to establish a program based out of the library that will serve youths at least one day a week during the school year and three days a week during the summer.
Volunteers will provide “caring and engaged adult supervision,” organizing educational games and creative art projects and creating a “safe place” for at-risk youths, according to Dooley’s proposal.
Read more about Dooley and her project on the Wheaton website at: http://wheatoncollege.edu/news/2015/03/24/creating-a-safe-space/.
