Volunteer Spotlight:

Alyssa Om’Iniabohs

This quarter’s spotlight features Alyssa Om’Iniabohs, Development Director and invaluable volunteer. Alyssa successfully applied for and obtained a grant from the Augustana Foundation in March 2009. The funds will go toward the Ayak Anguei Girl’s School in Konbek. We are in the middle of now raising funds to build one more dormitory. These grant monies will outfit the girls’ dormitory with bunk beds, a drastic improvement over the classroom dirt floors on which they presently sleep.

At the core of her duties, Alyssa writes grants as well as coordinates PES volunteer and DU intern grant researchers and writers. She also helps scout out prospective fundraising opportunities and works closely with Carol Rinehart, Executive Director, to increase funding for Project Education Sudan’s endeavors in Sudan. Alyssa graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with an undergraduate degree in International Studies and Spanish as well as a Certificate in Global Studies. She was accepted into the Fall 2010 MA in International Development Program at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Her volunteer work with Project Education Sudan has prepared her well for furthering her education in international development.

Alyssa is a world traveler and has spent time in Guatemala, with Engineers Without Borders serving as a Spanish/English interpreter. While she was there she conducted interviews with the villagers and helped install solar power panels. She recently returned from a first time visit to her father’s country of Nigeria to celebrate her Nigerian grandmother’s 80th birthday. She is especially interested in our focus on education and self-sustainability which she believes are very important catalysts for development.

For more information about how you can volunteer with Project Education Sudan, please contact us at (303) 316-4528 or info@ProjectEducationSudan.org.