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At Harvard, Finkton and a Quincy House roommate, Sangu J. Delle ’10, have raised over $50,000 and enlisted the aid of about 50 Harvard students and professors to create irrigation systems, boreholes, latrines, and hygiene education programs in communities in Uganda, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia...
“We tell them they should think about funding their college education,” Finkton says. “How can they prepare now?” And he has a work ethic that would make any advisor at the Bureau of Study Counsel swoon.
Allston Brighton Arts Bridge, a new non-profit organization founded by four recent graduates of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is giving local youth a chance to take command behind the camera.
The program’s mission is to improve arts education and build community in the Allston Brighton area. It is part of the University’s larger effort to aid these communities as it works to expand into them.
For now, the “My Allston Brighton” class is focusing on fulfilling what the organization’s leaders perceive as a significant need for arts education. They hope that the program will help students think creatively and allow them to view the places around them...