Grant was assigned to the Katalysis Central American Microfinance Network in Honduras. He designed and developed a model youth entrepreneurship program to provide business start-up loans for youth ages 18-25. Grant’s internship resulted in the publication of the “Youth Entrepreneurship Microfinance Program Manuel” a model which is being replicated in other microfinance organizations in Central America.

Nancy worked for Safe Passage, an organization that assists the poorest at-risk children of families working in the Guatemala City garbage dump andRoots of Peace, an international nonprofit organization that enters post-conflict countries, clears land mines and reclaims the land for agricultural production. She helped set up new operations for Roots of Peace in Vietnam.

Sarah spent a summer in Paraguay working with the Teach a Man to Fish organization that has created one of the world’s first high schools for rural youth that pays for itself. Students grow their own food, market the harvest, and operate a small agro-processing enterprise. Sara worked with Pacific Alumnus, Martin Burt at Fundación Paraguaya, the country’s first micro-finance organization.

Hunter and Domenica started a Pacific chapter of Ties to the World, a Guatemalan organization that is dedicated to making orphanages sustainable through social enterprises. Their work in Guatemala is leading to a self-sufficient prototype that can be replicated within a network of 40 orphanages throughout Central America, and in Kisumu, Kenya at an orphanage sponsored by School of International Studies students.