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Alum-Student Service Trip Aids Costa Ricans

Costa Rica’s lush tropical life, balmy weather, and miles of gorgeous coastline attract spring-breaker students and tourists from around the world. But their visits typically do little to boost the quality of life for the nearly 35 percent of Costa Ricans who live in extreme poverty and substandard shanty towns.

However, three alumnae, seven MHC students, and two staffers chose to spend spring break week challenging their minds and bodies on the first Janet Tuttle Alumnae and Student Service Trip. Anita Magovern, director of the campus community-service organization CAUSE, worked with Maya D’Costa, associate director of campus programs at the Alumnae Association, making arrangements with Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village Program.

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Woolley Fellowship Supports Bottom-up Development in Bangladesh

Empowering women of the rural Marma tribe in Bangladesh through peer-centered human rights awareness, mentoring, and networking programs is the thrust of a summer project undertaken by Bidita Jawher Tithi ’07, who was awarded the 2007 Mary E. Woolley Fellowship. She will receive $7,500 to initiate the project. Tithi will team up with a local organization to help the women, wracked by poverty, illiteracy, and gender discrimination, form a network of their peers to improve their economic standing, deepen their understanding of common diseases and how to prevent them, and deter violence. Tithi, who double majored in economics and physics, is a native Bangladeshi who plans on pursuing a doctorate in economics.

Photo by Sasha Goss