Gunn@Your Service Update

Submitted by Lauren Janov

Meet Gunn @ Your Service’s 2013 Social Entrepreneurs!

Congratulations to eleven inspiring Gunn students who, with over 120 others on campus, are turning innovative ideas into extraordinary projects to make our world – near and far -- a better place:

Freshmen

Grace Park will use her Gunn@Your Service micro-grant to promote her Make Happy Birthdays project which encourages students celebrating birthdays to donate to UNICEF’s hunger campaign that helps some of the billion people who go to bed hungry.  She will also raise awareness about their plight. [Hunger-International]

Eleanor Su will use her Gunn Grant to buy bake sale ingredients and give the proceeds to Free the Children which is building a school in Sierra Leone and providing epilepsy treatment. [Education/Health-Sierra Leone]

Sophomores

Laurence Chen will use his Gunn@Your Service micro-grant to buy parts needed to repair 30 bicycles that, once fixed, he will donate to Bay Area organizations serving children without them. [Sports/Health-Bay Area]

Jack Jaffe’s Gunn Grant will continue the efforts of his not-for-profit Recycled Golf Gear by Jack which is collecting used golf clubs for those who cannot afford the sport locally and in Brazil. [Sports/Health-Bay Area and Brazil]

Maya Ram and Deeksha Kumar will use their Gunn micro-grant to ship the school supplies they are collecting to BG Foundation which aids children of India’s migrant workers and to raise awareness about the challenges these children face. [Education-India]

Rachel Wu will use a Gunn Grant to promote her Bay Area Youth in Computer Science project. Gunn BAYCS student volunteers will create their own computer science curriculum and teach it to Silicon Valley’s underprivileged children. [Education-Bay Area]

Juniors

Neel Guha will use his Gunn Grant to purchase math manipulatives and games for his not-for-profit Buddies4Math.  Now in its third year, Buddies4Math student volunteers teach math at Mountain View’s Castro Elementary School. www.buddies4math.blogspot.com [Education-Mountain View]

Jayshree Sarathy’s Gunn@Your Service grant will buy supplies, flyers and a banner for her Handfuls of Hope charity which uses henna art to fundraise for Asha for Education, an organization which builds and supplies schools in India.  She also plans to raise awareness about the needs of children around the world. [Education-India] 

Jaewon Yoon’s Gunn Grant will buy keyboards for low-income music students participating in Gunn Music @ Costano’s program taught by Gunn students in East Palo Alto. This is the third year a Gunn Grant has been awarded to this project. [Education-East Palo Alto]

Senior

Tatiana Grossman’s micro-grant will help defray the cost of shipping thousands of children’s books that will be turned into libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa’s primary schools, work she does through her non-profit Spread the Words. This is the third year Tatiana has received a Gunn Grant for this project. www.SpreadtheWords.us[Education-Africa]

Gunn @ Your Service is exceptionally proud to support these outstanding projects!