A R O U N D C A M P U S
Partners for Greater Good
with Nobel Laureate
Leymah Gbowee
“Character counts as much as achievement.”
This message resonated during Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Leymah Gbowee's inspiring talk with our Sixth and Seventh
Grade boys during a special assembly. Ms. Gbowee led
a women's nonviolent peace movement that helped bring
about the end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
She is the founder of Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, an
organization committed to providing outstanding education
and leadership opportunities to women, girls, and youth.
For the past four years, Saint David's sixth graders have
collaborated with Ms. Gbowee to raise money for the
Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa's Book Bag Drive, an
initiative that provides book bags and supplies to high
achieving students in Ms. Gbowee's native Liberia and
in Ghana. Last year, through a bake sale that the boys
organized and ran on their own, the class raised enough
money to fund the purchase of 48 book bags.