Douglas Shontz Travels to the Gambia

2012 Aug 27

Douglas Shontz of James Creek is a senior studying History and Secondary Education at Juniata College. Shontz, along with other students raised almost $2,000 before the trip to help pay for solar panels for rural Gambian hospitals. This was the eighth trip to Gambia for Juniata students that links itself to a spring semester course on politics and human rights, women's rights, the role of Islam in Gambian society and health care in Gambia.

Shontz is the son of George and Susan Shontz and a 2009 graduate of Tussey Mountain Senior High School.