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
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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 |
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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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) |
Aga Khan Educational Services: Wellesley in Africa – Kampala, Uganda December 2, 2007
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Our Interns for 2009
Aga Khan Educational Services
Wellesley in Africa – Kampala, Uganda
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 1998, when schools re-opened that had been nationalized by the Ugandan government in the 1970s, and has welcomed interns from Wellesley since 2004. The schools offer students the national curriculum, the International Graduate Certificate in Secondary Education (O- and A-levels), and the International Baccalaureate.
Internship Description:
Interns live in the capital, Kampala, and work as apprentice teachers in any one of four schools: the Aga Khan Nursery School, 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 Makerere Avenue, 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 Bugandan 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:
| 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 |
Center for Cross Cultural Learning: Wellesley in Africa – Rabat Medina, Morocco December 2, 2007
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Center for Cross Cultural Learning
Wellesley in Africa – Rabat Medina, Morocco
The Center for Cross-Cultural Learning (CCCL) is a private cultural institution founded and directed by Moroccan academics with many years of experience in cross-cultural education. Courses in Fus’ha (Standard Arabic) and Darija (Moroccan Arabic) are taught by professionals trained specifically to teach Arabic as a second language. The list of lecturers includes outstanding scholars in the areas of social science, humanities, literature, religion, and architecture as well as artists, journalists, NGO activists, artisans, and craftsmen.
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 sponsors art exhibits and musical performances and organizes educational excursions to various parts of Morocco. The aim of these activities is to provide participants with opportunities to learn from the rich cultural diversity of Morocco and to better understand and appreciate the country’s cultural heritage.
The CCCL bookstore department, called MaghriBook, publishes regular bulletins of Moroccan publications and provides a number of university libraries with Moroccan books and audio-visual materials. Among MaghriBook’s regular customers are Harvard Library, UCLA and the Library of Washington University.
The CCCL is located in a nineteenth century building in the old city of Rabat Medina. Its premises are available for rent for conferences and special events.
Internship Description:
The CCCL Internship is different from all other Wellesley College internships in that it is more of an opportunity in cross-cultural living, rather than a traditional internship in an office setting. Students are housed by the CCCL during their stay in Morocco in simple but clean accommodations and have plenty of opportunities to get to know their hosts and other visitors of the Center.
There are a variety of opportunities to help out at the center depending on the students’ interest and skills. Students may be asked to assist with CCCL’s cultural and educational activities which include language courses, seminars and lecture series on Moroccan society and Arab and Islamic cultures. The CCCL also sponsors art exhibits and musical performances and organizes educational excursions to various parts of Morocco. For example, the CCCL also has programs for children 6 to 12 years of age. Sample workshop topics include sessions focusing on traditional oral folktales and storytelling techniques, introductory Tamazight language sessions, traditional Moroccan cooking, sewing, and embroidery, lessons on regional costumes, songs, and customs, traditional calligraphy (writing on the wooden board), and a carpet-making workshop.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
| Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors French language skills very desirable, Arabic skills also desirable. Open to all majors- Middle Eastern Studies, Africana Studies, Political Science, Music, Art, Sociology, Anthropology, History and French majors encouraged to apply. |
Personality: Flexible Open minded Motivated Culturally flexible |
