| Wanted: | Public Health Education Curricula Intern | |||||
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Organization: |
ProPeru Service Corps |
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Location: |
Urubamba, Peru |
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Duration: |
Minimum 1 month; preferably 2 - 3 months |
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| Duties: | Form a work group of local health and education professionals; collaborate with this work group to develop standardized and culturally competent public health education curricula to implement within primary and secondary schools in the Sacred Valley; develop implementation plan to utilize the curricula within the schools; create an evaluation plan and evaluative tools to accompany the curricula to test students' understanding of material and effectiveness of the activities included within the curricula |
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Education: |
Background in community or public health; preferably a community health/MPH student or public health professional |
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| Language Requirements: | Intermediate - Advance Spanish; must be able to effectively communicate with communities |
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| Wanted: | Public Health Data Analyst Intern | |||||
| Organization: | ProPeru Service Corps | |||||
| Location: | Urubamba and the Sacred Valley, Peru | |||||
| Duration: | Minimum 1 month; preferably 2 - 3 months | |||||
| Duties: | Take the lead on compiling, organizing and analyzing the data obtained from ProPeru's health campaigns and surveys as part of the water filter project; interpret the data; compile statistics and write summative reports describing the results; write recommendations for future research based on findings | |||||
| Education: | Background in public health or epidemiology | |||||
| Language Requirements: | Beginning Spanish | |||||
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Youth Development Intern |
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Organization: |
Association for the Welfare of the Mentally Disabled |
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Location: |
Mysore, India |
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Duration: |
Minimum 1 month; preferably 2 - 3 months |
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Duties: |
Support a grassroots program to meet the needs of special needs children in Mysore; train staff and parents on how to better care for special needs children |
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Education: |
Background in education, health and nutrition, physiotherapy, speech therapy, disabled-friendly architecture; experience with mobility issues, art therapy, music therapy, dance therapy, child abuse, child psychology, clinical psychology or occupational therapy; experience working with aids and appliances preferred; experience living/working in rural communities preferred |
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Language Requirements: |
English |
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Development and Communications Intern |
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Organization: |
Association for the Welfare of the Mentally Disabled |
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Location: |
Mysore, India |
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Duration: |
Minimum 1 month; preferably 2 - 3 months |
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Duties: |
Drive fundraising and communication efforts of NGO in Mysore, India which provides programming for special needs children and their families; raise community awareness through website development, newsletters, brochures and other promotional materials; assist in the preparation of grant proposals |
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Education: |
Background in business administration, communications, journalism, marketing, graphic design; must have excellent writing skills |
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Language Requirements: |
English |
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Development Intern |
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Organization: |
Oaxaca Foundation for Nature and Conservation |
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Location: |
Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Duration: |
Minimum 2 weeks; preferably 1 - 2 months |
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Duties: |
Support fundraising efforts for the foundation through grant research and writing |
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Education: |
Background in communications, journalism, english, marketing, public relations; must have excellent writing skills |
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Language Requirements: |
Intermediate Spanish |
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Education Intern |
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Organization: |
ProMexico Service Corps in collaboration with primary schools in and around Oaxaca |
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Location: |
Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Duration: |
Minimum 1 month; preferably 2 - 3 months |
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Duties: |
Assist teachers in classroom; tutor primary school students after school in math and science; possibility to teach English after school |
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Education: |
Background in education, family/community studies, Spanish |
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Language Requirements: |
Intermediate Spanish |
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Graphic Design/Marketing Intern |
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Organization: |
ProMexico Service Corps |
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Location: |
Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Duration: |
Minimum 2 weeks; preferably 1 - 2 months |
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Duties: |
Design promotional materials for a group of indigenous weavers in the Teotitlan de Valle in order to allow them to sell their products directly to consumers rather than to vendors who turn a large profit on the products; assist in other marketing efforts as intern sees fit |
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Education: |
Background in marketing, graphic design, public relations, communications, business administration |
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Language Requirements: |
Beginning - Intermediate Spanish |
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Nutritional Marketing Intern |
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Organization: |
Puente a la Salud |
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Location: |
Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Duration: |
Minimum 1 month |
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Duties: |
Develop strategic marketing campaign to improve local nutritional through the consumption of amarenth, a local grain chalked full of protein and amino acids; execute the campaign within local communities; map out ideas for future campaigns |
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| Education: | Background in marketing, public relations, communications, health sciences, business administration | |||||
| Language Requirements: | Beginning - Intermediate Spanish | |||||
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| Wanted: | Animal Rights/Veterinarian Assistant Intern | |||||
| Organization: | Veterinarian Practice | |||||
| Location: | Oaxaca, Mexico | |||||
| Duration: | Minimum 1 month | |||||
| Duties: | Assist licensed veterinarian in her mission to rescue, treat and find loving homes for street animals; clean, feed and play with animals to get them ready to live with a local family; set up a formal adoption process for animals; create animal rights campaigns focusing on the importance of spade/neutering pets and proper care of pets | |||||
| Education: | Background in the biology, veterinarian sciences, public administration; experience with animals preferred | |||||
| Language Requirements: | Intermediate Spanish | |||||
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| Wanted: | Journalism/Public Relations Intern |
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| Organization: | ProWorld Service Corps | |||||
| Location: | All ProWorld sites; preferably India, Thailand and Belize | |||||
| Duration: | Minimum 2 weeks |
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| Duties: | Contribute to the communication efforts to support ProWorld's mission, sustainable development and study abroad; report on issues facing our host communities and countries; visit multiple project sites within host country; write content and take photos which focus on development issues, projects, homestay living, cultural excursions and overall experience to be used in online communication channels; respond to student questions regarding host community and experiences in an online forum; conduct interviews of other onsite project interns; research and work with media outlets from home campus/community in order to gain media exposure for development issues, international education and ProWorld's projects |
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| Education: | Background in communications, journalism, marketing, public relations, international relations |
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| Language Requirements: | English | |||||
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| Wanted: | AIDS - Tourism Project Intern |
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| Organization: | ECOT | |||||
| Location: | Chiang Mai, Thailand | |||||
| Duration: | 5 - 10 weeks | |||||
| Duties: | Identification of the research issue and initiation of the research project; conduct in-depth surveys/interviews with organizations working in the field of AIDS (health, stigma, empowerment, women/men, children); literature review to learn about available research, projects, activities, etc.; identification of the research question; identification of the target groups for the research (tourists, tourism industry, NGOs, civil society groups); identification of the destinations for the research (country, district, town, etc.) project; writing up a draft of the research proposal. Intern will be based at ECOT and have access to a PC with internet and phone; travel allowances for research relevant interviews/meetings will be paid for by ECOT. |
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| Education: | Background in social science with previous research experience |
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| Language Requirements: | English | |||||
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| Wanted: | Education/Teaching Intern |
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| Organization: | Croston's House Children's Home | |||||
| Location: | Chiang Mai/Lamphun, Thailand | |||||
| Duration: | Minimum 1 month; preferably 2 - 3 months | |||||
| Duties: | Create sport activities and develop the standardized curricula for orphans that is focus on child development; create educational materials support; set up an English class after school to improve their English skill; support fund raising effort for the foundation through grant writing; ability to work without supervision, creativity with young children is a must; additional creative ideas are strongly encouraged |
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| Education: | Background in education, curriculum development, training and focus on child development; experience with children is preferable | |||||
| Language Requirements: | English, opportunity to study Thai language and use it in a work setting. |
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| Special Requirement: |
Volunteers will have the opportunity to stay on site at the orphanage during week and/or weekend hours, depending on the arrangement made by ProWorld, the intern, and the organization. |
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| ** Only women are accepted for this position and background checks are required. This is also an internship offering extensive exposure to rural life, and volunteers should be aware personal flexibility is essential for this internship. |
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| ** Final project placement is made by site directors, assessing each participant's skill set and interests to appropriately match with community needs at the time of internship. ** | ||||||