An information session for new student organization Empower Orphans will be held at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, in Atherton Hall’s Grandfather Clock Lounge.
Empower Orphans is a nonprofit organization founded by Penn State student Neha Gupta, the 2014 International Children’s Peace Prize winner, on the principles of service and international charity. The organization has been providing education, medical aid, clean water and stability to underprivileged children in India and the United States for nearly a decade. It has raised almost $1.7 million and impacted more than 25,000 children. It also recently partnered with Microsoft’s Collective Project.
The cause will now be expanded to include the philanthropic Penn State community. The student club will be combining the importance of service with the social aspects of college through exciting campus-wide fundraisers, and there will be opportunities to directly and personally impact children’s lives both abroad and here in Pennsylvania.