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A resolution recognizing the Nichols Humanitarian Fund at Vanderbilt University and its 2023 student recipients.
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WHEREAS, the Nichols Humanitarian Fund ("the Fund") at Vanderbilt University was established in 2006 by the E.C. and Lucile Hamby Nichols Trust and by Edward C. Nichols, Jr. and his wife, Janice Nichols. The Fund was established in honor of former First Lady Laura Bush's speech on Senior Class Day. The Fund encourages Vanderbilt students to become better citizens of the world and to broaden their thinking by volunteering for humanitarian efforts; and
WHEREAS, the Fund enables students to volunteer for local, domestic, or international humanitarian service opportunities by making support available for educational, travel, and living expenses during their time of service. The Fund distributes awards based on merit and need to Vanderbilt students to pay the expenses of their humanitarian activities; and
WHEREAS, students are encouraged to develop their own service opportunities where they can work to address areas of need of particular interest to them. Funding can also be used to participate in established service opportunities at Vanderbilt and throughout the world; and
WHEREAS, forty students received awards from the Fund in 2023 to work on humanitarian projects during the summer academic break. Students worked in eight U.S. cities and sixteen foreign countries. The projects are in Burlington KY, Indianapolis IN, Nashville TN, Pittsburg PA, Redwood City CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Barbara CA, Washington D.C., Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Honduras, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, and Ukraine; and
WHEREAS, the projects include creating the first Peruvian School of Emerging Leaders program in Lima, Peru; an archaeological dig in France; helping the homeless in Barcelona, Spain; battling food insecurity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; working with the disabled population in Nash...
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