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.
