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A team of Rochester students will undertake a project to explore educational alternatives for children who are forced to work as beggars in Senegal. The effort is part of a highly competitive national program to promote peace, resolve conflicts, and build connections across cultures. Funded through Davis Projects for Peace, a program created by philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis that provides support for student-initiated projects that advance the cause of peace, the team is led by Rose Mbaye ’16 (far right), a biomedical engineering major from Dakar, Senegal.

The group’s project, titled “New Beginnings for Child Beggars: Fostering Understanding and Stopping Abuse,” was selected by a campus committee as the University’s primary submission to the national competition. Joining Mbaye will be (left to right) Zanga Ben Ouattara ’16, a computer science major from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Mame Coumba Mbodji ’17, a business major also from Dakar; and Eyram Adedze ’17, an economics and psychology major from Accra, Ghana.