GLAD (Global Leadership and Development) is a leadership program for College Nine students that met weekly in Fall Quarter. Students focus on the ways that personal identity shapes concepts of global citizenship, participate in exercises in leadership development and explore diverse perspectives on current international issues. GLAD students focused largely on access to clean water and the positive impact that clean water can have on the health and wellbeing of many international communities. 

"We wanted to provide students with the opportunity to direct their interest into action, connected with the Rotary Club that showed us how we could make a WAPI and the benefits it can have on access to clean water" said GLAD co-facilitator and junior, Zuleica Gutierrez. GLAD students then planned and implemented a large-scale assembly of WAPIs—water pasteurization indicators--that could be sent abroad. In collaboration with the College Nine Service Learning Floor and Praxis, students made 120 WAPIs. These water pasteurization indicators were sent to the maternity ward of Afshar Hospital, which serves communities in the southwest region of Kabul, Afghanistan. One-hundred and twenty mothers will get to have faster and easier access to clean water for themselves and their children!