Early Childhood Development in Madrasas

Meghan O'Connor was a Hart Fellow in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania from 2000-01. Meghan worked with the Madrasa Project, where she used photography to document community school histories and children's stories.

Megan graduated from Duke in December 1999. While at Duke, she mentored a refugee adolescent through the World Club, a youth mentoring program. Meghan is currently working for the International Rescue Committee in Nairobi, Kenya, providing programmatic support to regional offices in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Eritrea, and the Sudan. Starting in the fall of 2004, Meghan plans to pursue a dual degree program in public health and social work focusing on reproductive health and gender-based violence as they relate to conflict-affected populations and forced migration.