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Children from New Hope orphanage in Busia, Uganda, make their nightly walk to get water for drinking and washing. They handle all the chores themselves—an important part of director Ken Mulago’s strategy for running the orphanage. “We want our children to behave as responsible adults,” he says. “We don’t want to raise them up just to think about themselves.”

Harvard students volunteer in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Courtesy of Elisa Nabel

Elisa Nabel makes a film about childhood and innocence in Rwanda

In Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, Elisa Nabel ’11 makes a film about childhood and innocence.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The Harvard team: Darryl Finkton ’10, Sangu Delle ’10, and Ndu Okereke ’10

Sangu Delle brings clean water to the village of Agyementi, Ghana

In Agyementi, Ghana, Sangu Delle ’10 brings clean water to a village.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 investigated several topics, including some research that involved visiting partner organizations of the Arusha Project, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) that was hosting her as a researcher. Here, she is shown with two children who attend the Baraa Orphanage and Nursery School, whose directors are both HIV-positive.

Rashmi Jasrasaria focuses on HIV prevention and women's empowerment in Tanzania

Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 focuses on HIV prevention, sexual health, and women's empowerment in Arusha, Tanzania.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The University of Ghana campus

At the University of Ghana, Audrey White studies the history of the slave trade

At "slave castles" and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Megan Shutzer ’10 first traveled to Africa during her junior year; she spent a semester traveling around Tanzania on a program learning about wildlife ecology and the conservation industry. Here, she is shown near Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, where she did a homestay with a Masai family (including some of the children shown).

Megan Shutzer interviews those who fled election violence in Kenya

In a refugee camp near Nakuru, Kenya, Megan Shutzer ’10 learns that fallout from the 2007 election violence persists.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard offices seek jobs and mentors for undergraduates

Harvard offices seek jobs and mentors for undergraduates

The social-engagement initiative combines studies with service

The social-engagement initiative in the department of African and African American studies combines studies with service.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Richard Wrangham

How cooking made us human

A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.

by Jonathan Shaw

Samuel Saidel-Goley (foreground) and Archery Club colleagues draw their bows.

Harvard Archery Club revival

Renaissance for the Archery Club

by Craig Lambert

The endowment’s swoon

A status report on the state of the endowment

A scene from the ART's forthcoming <i>The Best of Both Worlds</i>

Events at and around Harvard

Late fall events at and around Harvard