Kristin Cunningham, a Caldwell Fellow and sophomore in environmental design, with a resident at Home Sweet Home, a Shanghai-based charity that cares for 35 disabled and homeless people. Caldwell Fellows are renovating a house that belongs to Home Sweet Home while in Shanghai.
Janice Odom ’94 PhD, director of the Caldwell Program, has added photos to her blog, A Caldwell China Summer, which takes you along a month-long experiential learning service trip to China with her, 16 Caldwell Fellows and six China Fellows. Be sure to also check out one of her latest entries in which she writes about the adventurous culinary treats she has come across so far in China but hasn’t quite tried yet. (Chicken!)
Sixteen Caldwell Fellows and another six NC State students left Raleigh on Sunday for a month-long experiential learning service trip to China. Joining them is Janice Odom ’94 PhD, right, director of the Caldwell Program. Follow her and the students as she blogs from afar.
Perhaps it is a Chinese parenting technique for raising well-behaved children that the beds are so very firm here; no child would ever think of bouncing on one. One simply cannot work up a bounce on these mattresses.
The Caldwell Program is the university’s original merit scholarship program and is supported by Alumni Association membership dues.
Doc Hendley ’04 has been named a CNN Hero for tapping into his bartending experience “to save thousands of lives on the other side of the world.” He’s founder and executive director of Wine to Water, an international faith-based organization in Boone that installs running water and sanitation systems in the neediest parts of the world.
The 30-year-old first learned about the world’s water crisis when he took a break from college, and his job as a bar-keep, to travel the world; he hoped it would ground his education and provide some direction. It did.
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