Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP) internship – Luce Program (Kiyosato, Japan) January 12, 2009
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Located in the Yatsugatake Highlands in Kiyosato, Yamanashi, Japan, KEEP is an economic and community development project rooted in Christian faith. The Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP) began in 1938 as a Christian Camp and Leadership Center called Seisen Ryo. Incorporated 10 years later, KEEP was founded on four ideals: Food, Health, Faith, and Hope for Youth. KEEP introduced and encouraged dairy farming in 1947 as a viable solution for the local challenges of high altitude agriculture. KEEP continues promoting and teaching sustainable farming techniques to this day. Early projects at KEEP included establishing St. Andrew’s Church, a Nippon Sei Ko Kai parish (the Anglican Church in Japan); a rural health clinic; a community library; an experimental farm; an agricultural training school; and St. John’s Nursery School. Paul Rusch, KEEP’s founder, cast the vision of grassroots self-help community development and saw KEEP as a school for community leadership and democracy.
KEEP has grown to include environmental advocacy work and international outreach. KEEP provides a place for educational and cultural exchange between people of different backgrounds, languages, cultures, and religions to create and strengthen mutual ties dedicated to community development. KEEP has annually welcomed trainees and college interns from outside Japan since 1982. Students have come from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. In 1988, KEEP initiated a community development project in Tulgao, a mountain village in the northern Philippines, including agricultural, medical, and educational aspects.
KEEP aims to realize a sustainable society existing in harmony with nature. The initial activities envisioned by Paul Rusch have evolved over decades. But the mission has remained constant: to offer program participants and visitors alike a new perspective, a stronger spirituality, a deeper cultural understanding, a richer appreciation for the ties that bind all people, and an opportunity to learn valuable agricultural, environmental, and community building skills.
KEEP provides programming for all ages from preschool children to seniors. Both Japanese and international visitors can enroll in educational programs on the environment, farming, and cross-cultural understanding in day programs or overnight camps. Last fiscal year, more than 32,400 people participated in educational programs at KEEP. Over 130,350 people visited KEEP’s 3 museums. Approximately 1 million tourists visited KEEP during the year. The annual Paul Rusch Festival in October regularly attracts 50,000 fairgoers during the weekend. KEEP’s impact is not limited to Japan, but reaches worldwide as international visitors return home and share the knowledge gained at KEEP.
Internship Description:
Interns in the Environmental Education Department will assist KEEP staff with program development and implementation. Summer season is very busy in the Yatsugatake Highland with many people visiting our nature museums. Interns will assist museum staff and learn about KEEP’s approach to promoting environmental stewardship. KEEP offers visitors experiential programs to connect them with nature, thereby inspiring people to work to preserve and protect the environment. Duties will include assisting programs held in the forest and fields on KEEP property. Same sex dorm accommodations with other KEEP staff and interns.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Japanese helpful, but not required. An interest and/or background in cross cultural work, environmental education, and non-profit work desired. Must enjoy working outdoors. Should be able to on hike on a trail of moderate level difficulty. |
Personality: Flexibility and patience will enhance an interns experience as you encounter a cross cultural working atmosphere. An eagerness to learn about Japanese work styles and an easy going approach to new situations helpful. Works well both in groups and individually. |
Organização das Mulheres de Cabo Verde (OMCV) – Anchor Point Internships (Praia, Cape Verde) November 19, 2008
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OMCV’s impact is felt at several levels as it providesmany services in addition to information about and training in women’s rights, including: literary programs and activities which reinforce literacy; offers skills training (e.g. sewing, typing, basic computer skills, commercial baking); promotes family planning (targeted particularly at 15 to 19-year-olds); undertakes health education, including education about HIV/AIDS; gives loans to women for income-generating activities; runs work day care centers for 4 to 6 years olds; and provides information about environmental issues. OMCV has planned exchange visits to Brazil and Portugal to study methods of transforming and training women about their rights.
Since March of 2000, OMCV has provided more than 400 loans totaling $214,458 to over 270 families, achieving a loan repayment rate of 99 percent. During the 12 months ending in October of 2001, OMCV collected $23,332 in interest and fees, against operating expenses of $22,555 — demonstrating steady progress toward operational sustainability. Its microcredit activities have also provided a credible platform to address its community development goals, such as literacy training, health promotion, and AIDS prevention counseling. The National Microcredit Steering Committee endorsed OMCV’s approach and the NGO has been actively engaged in legislative discussions about the role of civil society organizations in micro-credit
services.
Internship Description:
Cape Verde is an archipelago composed of ten islands. It is only slightly larger than Rhode Island, and located 385 mi (500 km) west of Senegal. The intern will work with the staff in the Praia office. Praia is a city of approximately 100,000 inhabitants.
The OMCV runs several HIV/AIDS programs, including prevention and education, psychological support for families, work with community leaders. One intern will work in the HIV/AIDS prevention and education area.
The second intern will work on the microfinance area of OMCV. In 1999, with support from the African Development Foundation, OMCV created a new microfinance department, and with ACDI/VOCA assistance OMCV began to unlearn bad lending practices and adopt new procedures that will lead to sustainability. Previously, OMCV had disbursed loans to urban and rural women microentrepreneurs at very low rates of interest and with an unsustainable level of loan recovery.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors All majors encouraged to apply—interest in women’s health, education, development, microfinance, sustainability, social issues, peace and justice, human rights, encouraged to apply.
Knowledge of Portuguese or Spanish preferred. |
Personality: Flexible Motivated Open minded Detail oriented Organized Self starter Patient Able to live simply |
Rubisadt Foundation – Anchor Point Internship in Global Leadership (Douala, Cameroon) November 18, 2008
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Rubisadt Foundation, a non-profit association launched in 2000 by Doctor Florence Tobo Lobe, a scientist, a former senior lecturer and an independent researcher. A Wellesley College alumna class of 1969, Dr. Lobe holds a PH.D in organic chemistry from Paris XI University (Orsay). Dr. Lobe is a native of Cameroon where she dedicates herself in promoting girls’ interest in science & technology education.
The Rubisadt Foundation provides talented, high school age African girls with supplementary schooling and training with an emphasis on Science and Technology. Rubisadt’s teaching team is trained in “new” (western) methods and didactics to enhance the process of learning. Specifically, we encourage reasoning instead of copying, decision making instead of following, and students who are seeking to make a contribution. This pedagogy is particularly useful for helping girls successfully develop their skills in the pursuit of college level education, both locally and abroad. Rubisadt prepares its students to compete for jobs and projects in S&T implementation.
The target groups Rubisadt serves are young girls, 12 to 19 years, who are presently attending high school, displaying good performance and analytical ability, and a keen interest in science and technology. Additionally, we look for active parental participation (written commitment, attendance at monthly meetings, supporting study time and engaging in ongoing supportive dialogue with their daughters and the leadership program). Rubisadt offers supplementary education, as well as, other resources in order to reduce early drop-out rate from school and help girls build self-esteem, self assessment, and self learning.
To date, Rubisadt has trained and mentored over a hundred young girls with outstanding results locally as well as internationally. The most brilliant ones were accepted abroad at HEC and ESSEC (Paris), as well as Medical Schools in Cameroon, Yaounde’s ICAC, Benin, Mali, Management in Tunisia, and IUFM de Créteil (France).
Rubisadt’s belief is that the development of Cameroon will be achieved only when the gender inequality in access to education is removed. This equality will be accomplished when the majority of the population (women) will quantitatively and qualitatively be present in all the disciplines and cycles of educational attainment.
Internship Description:
After the intern is selected, she will outline for the foundation which fields interest her, which training levels she has and in which ways she wants to contribute, so that she will be able to lead both scientific and laboratory tasks upon her arrival in Cameroon. She will also help propose working didactic laboratory tools and working models from local material as well as/ or from rehabilitated waste products, stressing their application here.
The intern may also do research on the efficiency of the didactic tools, simulation games and new methods to be used here in regards to their local application. The intern will be also asked to report on the education gap and how this inhibits students’ understanding of scientific concepts.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Background in Sciences, with knowledge of laboratory techniques. Students must have some knowledge of French.
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Personality: Independent Outgoing Creative Adaptability Organized |
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) – Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning November 17, 2008
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Organization Description:
The Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) stands for community. BCNC assists over 4,000 individuals each year by providing the resources they need to secure a footing in their community and improve their lives. BCNC provides programs and services that give children, youth, and adults the edge they need to be more successful and productive members of their community. An affiliate of the Boston Centers for Youth and Families, BCNC works with the department’s 40 community centers to coordinate and improve city services and resources for Boston neighborhoods.
Internship Description:
The intern at BCNC will work closely with the Human Resource Manager to construct an internship that both fits her interests and benefits BCNC. For example, the intern may spend part of her working with an administrative team, such as the educational programming or fundraising team, and part of her time seeing these administrative decisions in action by working with participants in a program area. The internship is a great opportunity for those with interest in educational programming for children and adults or with an interest in non-profit and community development work, as BCNC also works to help neighborhood child care providers become certified.
The intern will be able to participate in include Adult Education, Childcare, Chinatown Summer, Family Service, Recreation, Red Oak After School, and Sunshine Saturday at BCNC. For details please visit the BCNC website: www.bcnc.net
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Interest in education, ESL, or community development. Excellent organizational and communication skills Chinese language skills a plus, but not required |
Personality: Self-motivated Out-going Confident Mission-driven |
ABC News – LUCE Program (China – Beijing) November 17, 2008
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Organization Description:
ABC News is responsible for all of the ABC Television Network’s news programming on a variety of platforms: television, radio and the Internet. With an average television and radio audience of 180 million people in a given month, ABC News far surpasses the competition. More than 2,300 affiliate stations broadcast ABC News Radio’s global news coverage. In addition, ABC News Now is a 24-hour news and information network currently available to more than 30 million users across cable, broadband, and mobile platforms. NewsOne, the affiliate news service of ABC News, provides live and packaged news, sports, and weather reports to 200 ABC affiliates, as well as more than 30 domestic and international clients.
Internship Description:
The intern must have an interest in covering the impact of the Beijing Olympic Games and the global economic crisis on China as she will be given serious and important tasks at ABC News including: researching story ideas, contacting possible interview subjects, writing articles for the ABC News website, transcribing interviews, and organizing and logging materials for the video tape library. Additionally the intern will have the opportunity to assist a producer and camera crew during filming assignments.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Interest in China and its history, culture and politics Intermediate level of fluency in spoken Mandarin, ability to read (Chinese characters are an advantage, but not a requirement) Background in journalism and various forms of mass communication
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Personality: Responsible Independent Flexible Ability to Multi-task Ability to work under a deadline Team-player |
Center for Cross Cultural Learning – Wellesley in Africa (Rabat Medina, Morocco) November 17, 2008
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The CCCL is a cultural and educational institution run by Moroccan academics who have years of experience and expertise in cross-cultural education. The CCCL organizes a variety of cultural and educational activities, which include language courses, seminars and lecture series on Moroccan society and Arab and Islamic cultures. The CCCL also offers musical performances and educational excursions to various parts of Morocco.
Internship Description:
An intern at CCCL is expected to participate these activities depending on her skills, interests, and the needs of the Center. A successful intern at CCCL should be flexible, open minded, motivated, and eager to learn and to be involved in all CCCL activities and departments. An intern will benefit the most from an experience with the Center if she comes prepared to be a part of the CCCL family rather than specializing in one area of the operations.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors Open to all majors- Middle Eastern Studies, Africana Studies, Political Science and French majors, especially encouraged to apply. French language skills highly desirable
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Personality: Flexible Open minded Motivated
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Children Now – American Cities Program (San Francisco) November 14, 2008
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Organizational Mission:
Children Now is a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization working to raise children’s well-being to the top of the national policy agenda. The organization focuses on ensuring quality health care, a solid education and a positive media environment for all children. Children Now’s strategic approach creates awareness of children’s needs, develops effective policy solutions and engages those who can make change happen.
Current Campaigns:
Children Now is currently engaged in a number of important on-going campaigns including:
Working as part of the 100% Campaign to develop a 2009-2010 legislative or ballot campaign to ensure that all California’s children have health coverage
Working with a coalition of educators on statewide school reform
Working with early care partners to expand preschool and programs for infants and toddlers
Leading national efforts to improve children’s educational programming and messaging on food and nutrition
Internship Description:
This summer, the intern’s projects will include working with one or more of our policy teams on current campaigns. This could include research and writing, attending meetings and outreach to constituencies. Additional projects may be added contingent upon time and the particular interest of the intern. The selected candidate will be supervised by either Wilma Chan, VP of Policy, or the policy director for education or healthcare.
Internship Qualification:
A person interested in children’s issues, particularly in the areas of healthcare, education or media. The intern must be able to do research, have strong analytical skills, be a quick learner and be a good writer.
Aga Khan Educational Service – Wellesley in Africa – Kampala, Uganda November 10, 2008
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Aga Khan Education Services (AKES ) provides education to some 55,000 students in 12 countries throughout Eastern Africa and South and Central Asia and has done so for more than a century. As a part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), AKES with Aga Khan Health Services provides social services equally for people of all faiths in urban and rural regions of the developing world. The AKDN also comprises institutions devoted to culture and architecture, rural support programs, and tourism and financial services (for more information, see www.akdn.org). In some parts of the world, Aga Khan schools provide the only access to formal schooling for girls and young women.
Aga Khan Education Services has operated schools in Uganda since 1957. After a period of nationalization by the Ugandan Government in the 1970s, the schools re-opened in the mid 1990s. They have welcomed interns from Wellesley since 2004. The schools offer students the Uganda National Curriculum, the International General Certificate in Secondary Education (IGCSE) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma.
Internship Description:
Interns live in the capital, Kampala, and work as apprentice teachers in any one of four schools: either of the two Aga Khan Nursery Schools, the Primary School, and the Secondary School. In addition, interns will spend part of each week working with faculty and staff on specific faculty/staff development and enrichment projects. Interns live in independent apartments near the school grounds, which are located in downtown Kampala on Colonnel Muammar Gaddaffi road (formerly Makerere Road, very near to the world-renowned Makerere University. Kampala is a leafy, bustling capital city that straddles seven hills. Taxis are abundant, but many commuters rely on boda-boda’s – the 1-passenger motorbikes that weave in and out of traffic. Most residents of the city speak English as well as Luganda and/or Kiswahili. Interns in the past have had a chance for travel outside the city to visit the shores of nearby Lake Victoria, or sample one of the national game parks.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors Africana Studies and Computer Science majors are encouraged to apply. Strong Academic background Demonstrated interest in Education and/or working with children Demonstrated interest in Africa |
Personality: Open-minded Mature Independent Flexible (able to survive the occasional cool shower or power outage which may affect the TV or the internet) |
The Georgia Trust for Preservation – American Cities Program (Atlanta) November 10, 2008
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The Mission of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation is to promote an appreciation of Georgia’s diverse historic resources and provide for their protection and use to preserve, enhance and revitalize Georgia’s communities.
The Vision of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation is for Georgians to understand and appreciate the irreplaceable value of historic buildings and places and their relevance to modern life. We envision Georgians who promote careful stewardship and active use of these diverse resources and recognize the economic and social benefits of preservation. We envision communities where new development complements and reinforces thriving downtowns and historic neighborhoods, contributing to a healthy and enriched humane environment.
Internship Description:
Communications
Position: Communications/Marketing/Public Relations
Responsibilities: Responsibilities include writing press materials and newsletter articles, media relations, building and maintaining media lists, organizing news clips and office files, and other assorted communications projects.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Interest in history and historic preservation Excellent writing skills Familiarity with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Excellent skills in communication, organization and event/public programming planning. Graphic design skills a plus.
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Personality: Detail oriented . Organized, detail-oriented, bright, cheerful, flexible, self-motivated, dependable Good communication and people skills |
The Field Museum – American Cities Program (Chicago) November 7, 2008
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From the Field Museum Web site: the museum was founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. These objects form the core of the Museum’s collections which have grown through world-wide expeditions, exchange, purchase, and gifts to more than twenty million specimens. The collections form the foundation of the Museum’s exhibition, research and education programs, which are further informed by a world-class natural history library of more than 250,000 volumes.
This year the Exhibitions Department is hosting two Wellesley interns. One will be assigned to the Traveling Exhibitions Department and the other will be working in Development.
EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION
The Field Museum’s Exhibitions department is comprised of small sub sects of individuals who design, develop, and produce the content and material aspects of all Museum exhibitions. In addition to implementing a large slate of temporary exhibitions each year, exhibition teams are currently working on major renovations to several permanent galleries as well. Each team includes at least one graphic designer, exhibit designer, content developer, production supervisor, and project manager. These members work in congress up to three years in advance of an exhibition to create the look and feel of the exhibition, as well as the educational messages the Museum wants to convey. Exhibitions are chosen and developed based on the mission of helping visitors explore the Earth and its people, and can vary in size and scope from a small exhibit of photographs on Arctic wildlife to a large collection of Egyptian art throughout the ages.
In addition to assisting with day-to-day content research and project management tasks, the internship will be designed so that the intern will receive a more intensive introduction into the area of audience research as it relates to exhibit development.
The intern will work with teams of museum professionals as they plan, develop, design and conduct audience research leading to the implementation, production, or post-opening evaluation of a number of major exhibitions. The intern will have the chance to gain a variety of general experiences in these areas by becoming a member of an Exhibit Development Team. A significant portion of the intern’s duties will focus on conduction and analyzing audience research. This research serves as the fundamental basis of the exhibit development process.
Other duties may include: attending meetings and strategy sessions relating to the development and design of selected exhibitions, assisting in developing, questionnaires and implementation strategies for audience research projects, assisting in writing reports on data gathered from interviewing museum visitors.
The intern will be mentored by Shelley Gustavson, Exhibition Developer and Evaluation Coordinator. Shelley Gustavson, née Ulrich, first joined The Field Museum as a volunteer intern in the Museum’s Exhibition Department in 1998. Shortly thereafter she was hired on as an Assistant Exhibition Developer, later being promoted to Exhibition Developer, Lead Exhibition Developer, and now as an Exhibition Developer, Evaluation Coordinator oversees all front-end, formative, and summative evaluation work for the Department. In addition, she collaborates with the Departments of Guest Relations and Museum Enterprises to ensure Exhibitions is apprised of all Museum-wide audience research initiatives.
During her time at The Field, she has been responsible for helping to shape the visitor experience for exhibitions such as Origins (human evolution), The Tibetan Art of Healing, Chocolate, Day of the Dead, Cochiti, The Ancient Americas, as well as an upcoming exhibit on mammoths. During her career, Gustavson has worked as a theatrical production manager and educator. Her education includes an honors Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1998).
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Current Sophmore & Juniors History, anthropology, art history, archaeology, art, classics, psychology, economics, and education majors are encouraged to apply. All skill sets that can apply to museum work: research, writing, creative brainstorming, interaction with the public, market research, etc. |
Personality: Self-starter with solid computer skills (Internet research, database, Microsoft Office) Detail-oriented person Excellent communication skills
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