Words from a Past Rotary Global Grant Scholar

“During my time as a Rotary scholar, I learned to look at development differently. We often think of international aid in terms of poverty reduction, and we often see poverty reduction in terms of dollars spent and earned. The anthropology of development aims to analyze global aid in another way. We pay particular attention to how initiatives play out on the ground to determine just what local communities’ needs are and how those needs might be met sustainably and, eventually, autonomously…Rotarians understand that to have the most impact, we need to learn from other cultures. As global grant scholars, that’s what we aim to do – during our studies, and afterward.”

Levi Vonk, Global Grant Scholar and Fulbright Fellow to Mexico.

Learn more about Levi’s story in The Rotarian. https://www.rotary.org/en/rotary-global-scholar-helps-migrant-workers-shelters.