We are very pleased to welcome Ellie Waterbury as an intern who will be helping the Q Fund .. in her own words here is how she came to join us:

 Hello,

My name is Ellie Waterbury and I am a senior Sociology major at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS.  Two years ago I first discovered the Q Fund through a fundraiser my sister was a part of at my former high school (Fairview, in Boulder, CO).  My education and personal life has been defined by an irrepressible calling to contribute all I can to remedying the cycles of systemic injustice that have come to persist on a global scale.

In the course of realizing the direction for this calling, I have become increasingly drawn to Africa.  Benedictine is the Alma Mater of Kenya native and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, and I have learned immensely from the legacy she has left at our school.  She is the personification of hope, and active resistance to injustice that I hope to emulate in my life.

All of my work is rooted in a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity and in living a life that exemplifies, and at the service of others works to further that ideal.

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the Q-Fund for my internship this semester. My work will primarily be directed towards broadening the Q Fund’s OneMarch: an initiative I feel very strongly about, and facilitating plans for a rainwater harvest system for the school in Zambia.

Thank you!

Ellie Waterbury