Impact Stories
UWC is about people - students, teachers, alumni, donors, parents, and many more - who are making an impact to the world: from the most glamourous initiatives to the smallest acts of kindness, here are their stories.
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- Creating Opportunities for Education in a Village in Tajikstan
- The alum who rowed across the Pacific for UWC scholarships
- Experiencing The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict as a UWC Dilijan Student
- A Cross-UWC Conversation on Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- From Global Health Researcher in Diseases of Poverty to COVID-19 Advisor
- Meet Dechen, A Third-Generation Tibetan Refugee Turned UWC Atlantic Scholar
- Filling the Urgent Gap in Opportunities For Refugee Youth in 2020: An interview with UWCx Initiative, Amala
- Summia, the First Rhodes Scholar to Hail from Afghanistan
- Mai Al-Qaisi: From Refugee to Save Our Future Global Ambassador
- One Alum’s Work As The First Peace-Psychologist in Kashmir
- A Class of 2020 Graduate Helping Fellow Youth Get Through Online Learning
- Democratising Access to Education in Sierra Leone