About Student Globe Foundation...

• On the summer of 2004, two of the foundation eventual co-founders were part of the first FORGE team to be granted permission to directly work and live in a refugee settlement, achieving the transportation of 25,000 volumes to the only secondary school inside the Meheba Refugee Settlement. Work was conducted under the administration and supervision of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in a school constructed and donated to the people of Zambia by the Japanese Government through their Development Agency AAR.

• Upon return from Africa the 2004 – 2005 academic year was dedicated to the conceptualization and incorporation of the foundation principles and missions as a campus university group and the second semester of classes to the production, edition, design and printing of the a publication we titled: Interconnections: A Publication of Student Exploration Discovery and Action utilizing photography and writings from students that had traveled around the world from all schools within the University of Dayton, in order to make a point as to the educational and formative value such opportunity represents, the learning and realizations that come to light, the gaining of more humanistic global and correct perspectives which weights the  injustices in the forms of serious lack of basic human needs or vicious extreme poverty cases that unacceptably abound in today’s partly dehumanized society.

• On the summer of 2005, Student Globe invested the $10,000 profit made from sales of the Interconnections publication, plus additional financial and institutional support by the University of Dayton’s President’s Office into a trip to Zambia, in order to perform post project evaluations of student lead micro development projects started a year before by American college students in the Meheba Refugee Settlement of Zambia. Time was maximized during this trip and counting with the support of the Marianist Brothers of Zambia, the Matero High School, the Government of Zambia, Rotary Club members of the Luapula Province (Mr. Rapha) and other special given individuals, another community was identified, assessed and personally contacted in order to result in further exchanges of students and resources a year later. The proposed plan was adopted and put forth by the University of Dayton Center for Social Concern as the Lubwe Zambia Immersion. However, Student Globe’s priority being the transportation of the needed resources, before the benefit and enjoyment of the travel and stay of the working students, put effort mainly on the transportation of the books and were not part of the Lubwe Zambia Immersion.

• Happily, another shipment of books to a bookless school was achieved, in this case being the beneficiary a beautiful community surrounded by lakes in the Northern part of Zambia called Lubwe. Books reached the Lubwe Secondary Schools on November 2006 ( as well to the adjacent elementary schools part of the same provincial school system).  

• As part of the production and investigations towards the publishing of Student Globe’s second publication, Crossing Borders: Projects of a Generation In Transit, on the summer of 2006, Student Globe officials traveled to Cap Haitien, Haiti to assess a remarkable process invented and perfected by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for converting sugarcane baggasse and manioka into charcoal briquettes capable of burning as intensely as firewood without producing smoke, thus providing an accessible solution to the problem of mass utilization of wood for cooking purposes.