The Kusasa Project, Franschhoek, South Africa February 27, 2012
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The Kusasa Project was founded in South Africa to encourage a brighter future for underprivileged children by facilitating academic, sporting and life skills development.
Kusasa runs a number of programs that aim to positively impact the children of the Franschhoek Valley by offering educational opportunity, sporting activities and a good example of personal interaction to kids who live in an environment which disappoints them, harms them and offers little opportunity to break out of the cycle of poverty. Much of what Kusasa provides is ideas, transport or costs for transport, volunteers to staff programs, management around planning – coordination – execution, materials, constant liaison with schools, administrations, volunteers, donors, the children and the communities. Kusasa makes a considerable effort to build relationships with all our constituents, but most importantly to understand the children and the environment they live and go to school in. Kusasa is involved with the four Primary Schools and runs a literacy program which uses small select groups of children who come for reading – this is an area where we need a lot of extra help as it is labor intensive. The project is currently housed in a Church Hall with expert and highly qualified Xhosa and Afrikaans teachers, who speak fluent English and houses state-of-the-art equipment.
Internship Description for 2012
The intern will be working in the pre-school with 4 and 5 years olds and/or in the primary school environment to help create a program that engages several classes of children. She will assist in the reading literacy component of the pre-school.
The ideal candidate has experience in a pre-school or primary school setting with interest in early childhood education. Qualified candidates will be dynamic, engaging and personable, well organized and a self-starter who shows initiative and is able to devise programs for the children and carry them through. The candidate should be able to adapt to a new environment and would benefit from the challenges involved with working far from home in another country, which in turn would require tolerance, patience and a ready sense of humor!
Housing and transportation will be arranged by CWS.
No language requirement.
Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) February 22, 2012
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Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-partisan organization working to improve the human rights situation of the people in North Korea as well as those North Koreans who have fled their country for various reasons. It was founded among human rights activists, intellectuals, and North Korean defectors in 1996. NKHR has been dedicated to improving the dismal human rights situation in North Korea and helping the North Korean refugees in their plight by way of carrying out an international campaign in collaboration with individual human rights advocates, as well as NGOs worldwide. NKHR also assists North Korean defectors in South Korea with their resettlement into a new society. By protecting the human rights of North Koreans, NKHR hopes to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to contribute to the peaceful reunification and integration of North and South Koreas.
Internship Description for 2012
An internship with the NKHR will allow a student to participate in organizing international and domestic events related to the issue of human rights and North Korean refugees. Potential projects include working with NKHR staff and volunteers in assisting with the resettlement of North Korean defectors in South Korea, involvement in volunteer education and training, conducting research on refugees from the North Korea and updating archives, including NKHR quarterly journal and Web site. Other duties may include assisting the staff to organize international campaigns on related issues of human rights and refugees.
Qualifications
Strong written and oral communication skills. All majors welcome, but background in Political Science, Economics, Sociology, or East Asian Studies is helpful. Interest in Human Rights issues. Knowledge of North-South Korea conflict. Knowledge of Korean (written and spoken).
The ideal intern is energetic, a self-starter, an independent worker, and willing to adapt.
Language requirement: Knowledge of written and spoken Korean.
Aga Khan Educational Service – Wellesley in Africa – Kampala, Uganda February 20, 2012
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Aga Khan Education Services (AKES ) Suitable candidates will have an articulated interest in policy and social issues, desire to learn about development issues in India, be a strong communicator, and be able to work both independently and as part of a research team. Due to the varied nature of the work, interns must be flexible and able to multi-task, whilst being methodical. If chosen as a finalist you may be asked to submit two written samples of work – e.g. essays, articles, research papers, etc.
Internship Description for 2012
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 (on shared room/flat basis) 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.
Desired Qualifications
Academic interests should include one or more of the following: Africana Studies, Education, and working with children.
The ideal candidate should be open-minded, mature, independent, flexible and an impeccable team player.
Accommodations will be arranged by CWS for all Wellesley Internships in Africa. Interns will live in faculty housing across from the school. Up to $1000 will be deducted from the stipend to subsidize housing costs.
No language requirement.
ABC News: Beijing Bureau February 10, 2012
Posted by cwslibrary in China, Luce.Tags: China, Cultural/Ethnic Origins, media
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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 for 2012
The intern must have an interest in journalism and 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.
Desired Qualifications
Academic interests should include interest in China and its history, culture and politics. A background in journalism and various forms of mass communication as well as strong writing skills are preferred.
An ideal candidate should be able to demonstrate independence, responsibility, and flexibility on the job. Ability to multi-task and work well under deadlines are also top characteristics interns should posses. Being a team player, however, is also of uttermost importance.
Intermediate level of fluency in spoken Mandarin, ability to read (Chinese characters are an advantage, but not a requirement).
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop – open to seniors! February 3, 2012
Posted by cwslibrary in Advanced Projects, American Cities Program, New York.Tags: Arts, not-for-profit, United States
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A significant workshop in the history of American printmaking, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop was established in 1948 by Robert Blackburn, a legendary figure in the history of printmaking. It became a remarkable educational center with outreach throughout the community fostering emerging talent in the arts and involving many in the process of printmaking. Today, the workshop is undergoing a revival of its historical dedication to the relationship of the arts and the community as well as to the art of printmaking itself. This internship position is available to an art major or a student with some experience and interest in printmaking to work under the supervision of master printer Phil Sanders.
Advanced Project Description for 2012
This ten-week program offers hand-on training in many aspects of a professional print studio. The intern is involved with platemaking, assisting the master printer and the artists-in-residence, editioning, assisting in the archives, educational programming and performing various other print related tasks depending upon experience.
Desired Qualifications
Strong printmaking portfolio, art background helpful. The ideal intern is motivated, creative, inquisitive, and detail oriented.
No language requirement.
Note: this internship requires an on-campus interview and the presentation of a portfolio.
NOTE: this opportunity is the ONLY Global Engagement opportunity open to seniors.
Children’s Hospital – Boston February 3, 2012
Posted by cwslibrary in Advanced Projects, American Cities Program, Boston.Tags: Health, pre-med, research, Science/Technology
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Dana Farber Harvard Children’s Cancer Care includes the Pediatric Oncology Department at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB). All staff and faculty carry joint appointments at both institutions and with the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. This 68-year old Hematology/Oncology program is among the oldest in the country and is internationally recognized for its research in pediatric blood diseases, cancer, and stem cells. It was founded by Dr. Louis K. Diamond, who is often said to have been the father of Pediatric Hematology, and by Dr. Sidney Farber, who originated cancer chemotherapy. The modern program dates from 1967 when Dr. David G. Nathan replaced Dr. Diamond as Division Chief and assumed responsibility for all Pediatric Oncology at CHB and the DFCI. Soon thereafter, a bone marrow transplant program was begun. Current Chiefs include Drs. Stuart Orkin and David Williams.
The Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Stem Cell Program at CHB/Dana-Farber houses a rich collection of researchers in the areas of stem cell biology, development, biochemistry, hematopoiesis, transcription, immunology, cancer genetics, cell cycle analysis, cancer genomics, and tumor biology. The division has trained 10 members of the National Academy of Sciences or Institute of Medicine, 11 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and almost 60 deans, department chairs and division chiefs. There are 42 women faculty in the division. The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology faculty at the Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute receive more than $32 million in research support per year, the majority from the National Institutes of Health. The total research space supporting the Division of Hematology/Oncology is 45,000 square feet in state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. The CHB Stem Cell Program is located in adjacent space and occupies an additional 6,240 square feet.
Advanced Project Description for 2012
The internship provides an opportunity for students to learn skills related to basic, translational and clinical research in pediatric blood diseases, cancer and stem cell biology. Basic research is laboratory-based research of normal biological processes and the mechanisms of disease. Skills that you can expect to learn in a basic science laboratory include the planning, execution, and interpretation of experiments and scientific techniques such as PCR, cell culture and gel electrophoresis. Translational Research is research that transforms scientific discoveries arising from laboratory studies into clinical applications. Although translational research is patient oriented much of it is performed within the laboratory. Skills that you can expect to learn from participation in translational research are a combination of those learned from a basic research experience and a clinical research experience. Clinical research is the study of disease, treatment, and outcome in patients. Skills that you can expect to learn in clinical research include the design of clinical studies, managing databases, and data analysis. Sometimes a clinical research experience may involve direct interviews of patients or family members but often will not involve direct patient contact.
The Intern will select a faculty mentor from a list provided by the Division and will participate in basic research within this faculty’s laboratory or will participate in developing a clinical research effort. The intern and mentor will develop a learning contract that delineates the specific goals of the internship. The intern is expected to become facile with the research approaches utilized by their mentor and, at the discretion of the mentor, may develop a specific project with a current member of the research team.
The intern will be expected to attend all required training modules of the institution, attend all laboratory meetings of their group and scientific seminars as directed by their mentor. Weekly seminars include:
1. Pediatric Hematology-Oncology research seminars, which focus primarily on outside speakers;
2. specific lab meetings;
3. a ‘floor meeting’ in which all trainees present about once/year; this meeting is attended by all CHB faculty focused on hematology and stem cell;
4. many Harvard Medical area and University seminars; and
5. Harvard Stem Cell Institute seminars, all of which bring in speakers with international reputations. The intern will follow all safety and confidentiality requirements of the institution.
At the end of the internship, the intern will be required to develop a written report of her project and will present her research findings at a special seminar set up for presentation of multiple interns. These activities will contribute to the overall final evaluation of the student. Continuation of the project after the concentrated training experience will be at the discretion of the mentor.
Desired Qualifications
Applicants must be currently enrolled Wellesley College juniors. A strong interest in medicine, science or laboratory research is essential. A background in science and/or scientific research is recommended but not required.
No language requirement.
Children’s Memorial Research Center - Chicago February 3, 2012
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At Children’s Memorial Research Center (CMRC), internship mentor Lauren Pachman, MD, ’57 leads her research team in the intensive study of the clinical and pathophysiology of Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM), a chronic illness in which young children develop a characteristic rash and profound weakness. Over 450 children are enrolled in the Cure JM Program of Excellence in Juvenile Myositis Research at the Children’s Memorial Hospital, which cares for over 20% of the children with this disease in the USA. These children provide both extensive clinical epidemiology data and biologic material (skin, blood, muscle) for cellular, molecular and genetic studies of this disease. Areas of previous investigations include defining the critical variables at the onset of JDM symptoms, such as preceding infectious disease, as well as events important in shaping their disease course. A major component of this autoimmune disease is the small blood vessel, especially the capillary structures, which are attacked by child’s own immune system. There are indications that environmental and genetic risk factors are strongly associated with disease susceptibility, but it is very rare for more than one child in a family to develop these symptoms. Even less information exists about the long range outcome of this chronic and sometimes fatal illness—including the premature development of cardiac dysfunction.
Advanced Project Description for 2012
This internship has a wide spectrum of possible projects which range from laboratory based “bench” projects, using state of the art technology to study the children’s samples, to clinical investigations which probe the over 1,000 variables/child. She will participate in weekly lab meetings and institute-wide conferences. She will also visit the clinic and learn to recognize the physical and laboratory findings in children referred with weakness and muscle complaints.
The focus of the group’s investigation is:
1) to identify the sequence of clinical and molecular events immediately following disease onset.
2) to characterize the damage to the small blood vessels that is central to the disease process.
3) to identify the specific genes that are associated with resistance to therapy.
Dr. Pachman typically has the intern select a project from a current list of ongoing research. Before the student starts her project, she will write up an experimental plan outlining the specific goals of the selected project. She will work on this plan with Dr. Pachman, and the format includes the hypothesis of the study, the specific aims, the methods selected, projected data analysis, and will include so preliminary data that has been accrued by other members of the research team. The intern will meet other college and medical students participating in summer research. She will be asked to deliver a ten-minute presentation about her internship research topic at the end of the summer assignment, and to write up her findings, both for the CWS and to formulate the next steps in the line of investigation.
Desired Qualifications
Three years of lab experience. In-depth knowledge of biology, chemistry; familiarity with statistics. Previous exposure to genetics and molecular biology would be very helpful. Experience with scientific writing. Applicants should be motivated, organized, and detail oriented.
Directorio Legislativo February 2, 2012
Posted by cwslibrary in Advanced Projects, Argentina, Wellesley Internships in Latin America.Tags: Argentina, Grassroots Organizing, Human Rights, Law/Politics
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Directorio Legislativo was founded as an independent project in 1999. Today, the foundation works as a non-profit organization to strengthen the institutional role of the Argentine legislative branch at the local, provincial, and national levels. For this our organization works to inform the public on how legislative power can affect their daily lives and what role the public can play in demanding transparency and civil rights. Our initiatives seek to promote and defend public interest.
Our areas of work and projects are:
I. Legislative transparency:
- Directorio Legislativo, quienes son nuestros legisladores y cómo nos representan (Legislative Directory, Who are our legislators and how they represent us). Directorio Legislativo (DL) was first published in 2000 in order to spur public debate and to provide the necessary tools with which the public can monitor and influence the activity of its legislators. The publication contains basic information about the function of Congress as well as information about current congressmen and senators.
- Network of “Parliamentary watchdog organizations” in Latin America. Directorio Legislativo is leading a network of non profit organizations in Latin America that work towards the transparency and strengthen of the legislative power in different countries.
- Innovation in Congress Award. Directorio Legislativo believes that many members of Congress over the past few years have undertaken creative programs to better social and political conditions in Argentina. With the hope to encourage more of these initiatives this award is given every year to a national senator or congressman who spearheads an innovative project to resolve a specific social, institutional, cultural, or economic problem.
II. Legislative monitoring and updates
Directorio Legislativo monitors and follows the legislative activity of the National Congress and the legislatures of the City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Misiones, Santa Fe and the Parliament of Uruguay. This information is used to create reports and newsletters. These newsletters—which deal with various themes related to legislative power in Argentina over the past decade—are distributed to five thousand people in Argentina and abroad and are translated into English. The objective of the newsletter is to generate debate and ultimately consensus among distinct actors in society.
III. Consensus building
The Agro-Industrial Consensus aims to coordinate a consensus-building process to underpin the debate on agricultural policies. Argentina urgently needs to express the basic agreement shared by many agricultural organizations on key issues such as: institutional quality; fiscal framework; the regional economy; agriculture, and dairy produce. The Consensus is currently being promoted in all provinces of the country, with a focus in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, La Pampa and Entre Ríos. The goal of this project is to discuss the “Consensus Document” with congressmen and senators.
IV. Institutional Development
This area main purpose is to help the organization grow and have a bigger impact on society, fulfilling the it’s mission and contribution to society. In order to achieve this there is a strong focus on fundraising, external and internal communications, institutional relations and serving as a liaison with other non and for profit organizations.
Advanced Project Description for 2012
The intern will work on the “Legislative Directory. Who are our legislators and how do they represent us?”, the Innovation in Congress Award, and Institutional development.
The intern will spend the first week learning about our different projects, and meeting with each project coordinator. During this week the intern will also be asked to read different newspapers and articles in order to gain knowledge about the Argentinean political, social and economical situation.
In the second stage of the internship, the intern is assigned different projects, some will be weekly projects and other will last the whole internship period. Since Directorio Legislativo is a small and hands-on organization, the projects will have a small percentage of administrative tasks that will also have to be performed as part of the internship.
In the third stage, the intern will complete her tasks with the help of the area directors and program coordinators and in close cooperation and contact with any other interns in the office.
The intern is expected to come to work into the office and to attend to different events during or outside office hours.
Desired Qualifications
Good knowledge of spoken Spanish, good organizational skills. Interest in government. Knowledge of Latin American politics recommended.
The ideal intern is capable of working in a changing environment (such as the political environment), and able to meet her own deadlines to reach objectives. She knows how to prioritize,and is a team player (preferring to work on a team). She is proactive, charismatic, and able to effectively communicate with high-level members of government.
Language requirement: strong spoken Spanish.
Poder Ciudadano February 2, 2012
Posted by cwslibrary in Advanced Projects, Argentina, Wellesley Internships in Latin America.Tags: Argentina, Education, Human Rights, Law/Politics
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Poder Ciudadano is a not-for-profit, non partisan organization. It was founded in 1989 as an initiative by a small group of citizens concerned about civic and social rights in Argentina. The organization’s goal is to promote citizen’s parti cipation in the governmental process, transparency and the availability of information and public access to information created by government entities. Poder Ciudadano’s belief is that transparent, public information strengthens democracy and local institutions.
Advanced Project Description for 2012
The intern will work as part of the Political Institutions and Government section of the organization. She will either author or assist in writing reports on political issues at the national level (campaign finance, political reform, among other subjects). She will also assist in projects and other publications as needed. Duties will also include research and analysis on topics related to municipal, provincial and national level politics.
Desired Qualifications
Interest in Political science, law, education, sociology, anthropology or other areas in the social sciences. Knowledge of Spanish. Laptop required. The ideal intern is motivated, a self-starter, and responsible. She must be willing to work as a team in a small office, and bring her own laptop. Language requirement: strong Spanish (both written and oral).
