Political Science grad raising $500,000 for victims of earthquake
Eileen Knowles spent time in Ghana while studying at McMaster.
A McMaster Political Science grad from Ecuador is raising half a million dollars to support the victims of a massive earthquake that struck her country April 16.
Eileen Knowles, who recently returned to Ecuador to work with the non-profit Global Citizen Year, says she was inspired to work on social justice issues by her time at McMaster.
“My social entrepreneurship and international development career took off early on due to the work I started at McMaster,” she told CBC Hamilton. “I graduated in 2007 with a Political Science degree. I became interested in social justice at McMaster, following a trip to India during my 1st year there. The next year I founded SEED Canada, also with McMaster students, a scholarship program for students in Zambia and Kenya.”
Knowles is giving the money to the Red Cross, which she says has the “expertise and the macro vision of what’s going on and what the needs are.”
