Service and ethical awareness shape an Oxford College education. Through the Pierce Institute for Leadership and Community Engagement and other programs, students learn to consider ethical principles in all they do, from service projects to class projects, from volunteer work to life’s work. Oxford students become principled leaders, and Oxford alumni make a difference in the world every day.
Hoping to learn Spanish and experience another culture, Amanda Paniagua volunteered to work with Peruvian children the year before she entered Oxford. Within about three months, she was fluent in the language and had fallen in love with community service. The children of Casa Hogar Los Gorriones—a Peruvian orphanage whose name means “home of the sparrows”—touched her in ways she wasn’t expecting.
When she began her studies at Oxford, she vowed to continue helping. Through a student service program called Volunteer Oxford, she created the Peruvian Orphanage Project to raise money for Los Gorriones, and by the time she graduated, she had collected thousands of dollars.
Paniagua earned Emory’s 2006 Humanitarian Award and continued in Emory’s School of Nursing, cofounding the Atlanta Doula Collaborative, a volunteer organization that helps women through childbirth, offering support in hospitals, birth centers, and at home.
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