2016 Placements

Please note that the following information is subject to change.

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BARBADOS

Organization Pinelands Creative Workshop (PCW)
Location St. Michael, Barbados
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.pinelandscreativeworkshop.org
Position Description The intern will assist in the management and implementation of community building projects focusing on Capacity Development, career and business development.

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BRAZIL

Organization ECOAR Institute for Citizenship
Location Sao Paulo, Brazil
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.ecoar.org.br/
Position Description

The Sustainability intern will be involved in our communities’ projects such as field workshops, and in elaborating new and innovative education material as sustainable games, sites, blogs, booklets, workshops.

The intern will participate with senior staff on several activities and will be responsible to produce a report for them. The intern will also be part of meetings, workshops and lectures to improve his/hers knowledge about Environmental Education, Green Economy, Global Warming, Adaptation Issues, and so on, learning ECOAR's participatory methodology and exchanging knowledge with technical team and beneficiary groups.

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CANADA

Organization Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America (Fulbright Canada)
Location Ottawa, Canada
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.fulbright.ca/
Position Description The intern will assist the program officers with execution of key projects relating to our core academic exchange programs, including coordinating the Fall Orientation programming for incoming American Fulbright students and scholars.

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CHINA

Organization Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange (JESIE)
Location Nanjing, China
Number of Placements 2
URL http://www.jesie.org
Position Description The intern's main role is to assist with academic activities as well as basic office work related to English proofreading.

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COSTA RICA

Organization Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Rainforest Conservation (COTERC), Large Mammal Monitoring Technician
Location Tortuguero, Costa Rica
Number of Placements 1
URL http://coterc.org
Position Description The intern, working under the direction of the COTERC station manager at the Caño Palma Biological Station and any available volunteers, will continue the established comparative transects used in the large mammal monitoring program. The intern may also work under the supervision of a PhD candidate if the candidate is present, otherwise, will work in coordination with the station manager and research coordinator to maintain the transects and with routine data collection for tracks on these transects. The intern will also assist in the ongoing sea turtle conservation program and other programs where deemed necessary.

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COSTA RICA

Organization Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Rainforest Conservation (COTERC), Research Assistant (Marine Turtle Study)
Location Tortuguero, Costa Rica
Number of Placements 1
URL http://coterc.org
Position Description The intern will work under the guidance of the COTERC manager at Caño Palma Biological Station, and with current program leaders on the north beach with the ongoing sea turtle conservation program. The intern will also assist the large mammal monitoring program and other projects as deemed necessary.

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COSTA RICA

Organization Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Rainforest Conservation (COTERC), Community Conservation
Location Tortuguero, Costa Rica
Number of Placements 1
URL http://coterc.org
Position Description The Community Conservation intern will develop, in partnership with station staff and San Francisco village educational committee, conservation education programs to be delivered to local community. The intern will also assist with other ongoing Caño Palma Biological Station (CPBS) monitoring programs.

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EL SALVADOR

Organization Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS), Clean Water Campaign
Location San Salvador, El Salvador
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cis-elsalvador.org/
Position Description The intern will support the CIS campaign for clean water advocacy, education, and training on use of filters in communities with scarce economic resources. The intern will also accompany the CIS promoter to communities to carry out workshops and install filters.

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EL SALVADOR

Organization Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS), English School
Location San Salvador, El Salvador
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cis-elsalvador.org/
Position Description The English School Program Assistant will help with the coordination of the Mélida Anaya Montes Language School with a focus on finding ways to better support volunteers in integrating popular education with English grammar and social justice themes into the adult English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom.

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EL SALVADOR

Organization Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS), Fair Trade Salvadoran Crafts
Location San Salvador, El Salvador
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cis-elsalvador.org/
Position Description The Fair Trade Salvadoran Crafts intern will work with our Solidarity Crafts and Salvadoran Enterprises for Women programs to increase marketing capacity, following a fair-trade model.

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EL SALVADOR

Organization Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS), Marketing Intern for Language Schools
Location San Salvador, El Salvador
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cis-elsalvador.org/
Position Description The Marketing intern for the CIS Language schools will work principally with the Language School Coordinator to create a marketing plan to be executed throughout the year in order to increase Spanish students enrolled in the school, the number of organized groups visiting CIS and the number of volunteers in the English School.

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EL SALVADOR

Organization Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS), Salvadoran Enterprises for Women
Location San Salvador, El Salvador
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cis-elsalvador.org/
Position Description The intern will accompany CIS support to Salvadoran Enterprises for Women in rural areas with economic depression and low levels of formal education. This will include participating in evaluations with women and writing up a report of the results in both Spanish and English.

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EL SALVADOR

Organization Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS), Youth Formation and Scholarship
Location San Salvador, El Salvador
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cis-elsalvador.org/
Position Description The intern will be responsible for helping systematize manuals for grassroots educators for workshops with youth between the ages of 14 - 25 years old on various themes such as environment, analysis of Salvador reality, economic alternatives, gender, human rights, etc. The intern will also be responsible for developing and co-facilitating some of the workshops with CIS grassroots organizing team.

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GERMANY

Organization Embassy of Canada to Germany - Public Affairs
Location Berlin, Germany
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.germany.gc.ca
Position Description The internship will be in the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy. The intern will be working closely with the Public Affairs officers, particularly working with officers dealing with the communications and advocacy coordination requirements of a large Canadian Embassy and two Consulates.

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GERMANY

Organization Embassy of Canada to Germany - Trade Section
Location Berlin, Germany
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.germany.gc.ca
Position Description The internship will be in the Trade Section of the Embassy. The intern will be working closely with the Trade section officers, particularly working with promoting Canadian exports to Germany, attracting foreign direct investment to Canada, and leveraging cooperation between Canadian and German researchers.

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GREECE

Organization The Canadian Institute in Greece
Location Athens, Greece
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cig-icg.gr
Position Description The intern’s major responsibilities at the Institute will be to assist in the running of the Institute's library (including the accessioning and cataloging of new books) and the updating of the Institute's website. The intern will also help the Assistant Director in the Institute’s office and hostel as required. In particular, the intern will assist in the organization of the annual Open Meeting in May, and of an archaeologically-oriented excursion in June/July. Another vital aspect of the intern’s responsibilities will be to represent the Institute, and Canada, within the international archaeological and cultural community in Athens.

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HUNGARY

Organization Terre des hommes
Location Budapest, Hungary
Number of Placements 1
URL  http://www.terredeshommes.hu/
Position Description The Regional Office of Terre des hommes is looking to hire two interns - a research intern and a communications intern - to produce content for the Child Protection Hub and to promote the Hub in the region.

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INDIA

Organization CanSupport
Location New Delhi, India
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.cansupport.org/
Position Description CanSupport will complete 20 years of operations in November 2016. The intern will be responsible for designing and setting a plan in action, and executing some set of communications (print, presentations, media, social media) to commemorate this landmark year.

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INDIA

Organization Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy (JCCD)
Location Bangalore, India
Number of Placements 2
URL http://www.janaagraha.org/
Position Description Any out of the 4 positions are available as per student interest, eligibility and appropriate match.

  • Research:
  • Open Works
  • Community Outreach
  • Urban Capacity Building

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ITALY

Organization The Gori Collection of Site-Specific Art
Location Santomato di Pistoia, Italy
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.goricoll.it
Position Description Most of the intern’s time and responsibility concerns conducting guided visits to the Collection. Guiding the tours is definitely a task for students with good “people skills”: we receive groups from the general public as well as from such highly-qualified visitors as artists, museum directors, professors, and journalists, often from all over the world. Their presence represents a rare opportunity to enter into personal contact with operators in the fields of contemporary art and culture. Visits last about 4-5 hours, are conducted in English and Italian and can sometimes be held as often as 5-6 times a week. The intern must be well-disposed towards a bilingual experience, physically fit, healthy and enjoy walking & learning about art as well as being with people. When interns are not conducting visits, we may ask help in proof-reading texts, handling visit correspondence and phone calls. Such secondary job responsibilities depend on the intern’s aptitude, good will and the amount of time available for extra training. In such a small organization as ours, the things to do range from the (only) seemingly inconsequential to the highly important. In general interns are essential for the smooth running of the busy visiting season; interested and responsible students may be invited to participate in special projects involving office or archive work.

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JAMAICA

Organization Canadian Urban Institute - Sustainable Development Planner
Location Black River, Jamaica
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.canurb.org/
Position Description The St. Elizabeth Parish Development Committee (SEPDC) is a community-based, non-government organization with the mandate to act for citizens and communities in local planning processes, and to build institutional capacity within local governments for long-range planning. CUI is supporting the Parish of St. Elizabeth to develop and implement local sustainable development planning in the region. This internship will involve working through the SEPDC in urban and sustainability plan.

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KENYA

Organization Wikondiek Primary and Secondary School
Location Wikondiek, Kenya
Number of Placements 2
URL None Available
Position Description
  • Assisting teachers in Forms 1 - 4 (equivalent to grade 9 -12) or standard 4-8 (equivalent to grade 4 - 8) schemed subject area of specialty.
  • Helping design a project proposal for a computer training and resource centre as an income generating activity for the school.
  • Training the schoolchildren on a game of interest outdoor or indoor
  • Assisting with the provision of additional coaching/mentoring to students as required
  • Designing creative and supportive extra/ co-curricular initiatives

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MEXICO

Organization La Salle University, Center for International Education
Location Mexico City, Mexico
Number of Placements 2
URL http://ciel.ulsa.edu.mx/
Position Description Placements are available at any of these 4 organizations as per student interest, eligibility and appropriate match with the organization.

  • El Caracol is a private, not for profit organization assists run away children/ youth and street kids.
  • Christel House of México A.C. is a private elementary and middle school founded in 2004 to help underprivileged children and their families in poor, underprivileged districts of Mexico City.
  • Casa Arturo Mundet Nursing Home For The Elderly.
  • Casa Cuna La Paz A.C. is a Christian inspired, not for profit, institution created to help orphan or abandoned children in Mexico City.

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NICARAGUA

Organization University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN), Bluefields Campus
Location Bluefields, Nicaragua
Number of Placements 1
URL

http://www.uraccan.edu.ni

http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/uraccan

Position Description The main goal of this internship placement is to assist URACCAN Bluefields in strengthening its different English as a second language (ESL) programs. The intern will be expected to work collaboratively with URACCAN language teachers, particularly ESL, promoting the communicative learning of English promoted by URACCAN at different levels.

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NICARAGUA

Organization University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN), Nueva Guinea Campus
Location Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua
Number of Placements 1
URL

http://www.uraccan.edu.ni

http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/uraccan

Position Description The intern will assist the English teachers at URACCAN in continuing to master the English language, focusing on activities to develop abilities on the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Moreover, the intern will also work with students who are majoring in teaching English. When teaching ESL students, the intern will co-plan, co-teach and co-evaluate the teaching-learning process with the English teachers he/she is going to work with. Another activity that the intern can do is to learn or improve his/her Spanish with the assistance of his or her mentor.

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PHILIPPINES

Organization Canadian Urban Institute - Tourism Development Officer
Location Siquijor or Negros, Philippines
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.canurb.org/
Position Description

With funding from the Canadian government, CUI is implementing the Local Governance Support Program for Local Economic Development (LGSP-LED) Project. The Project aims to strengthen local governance and support sustainable local economic development activities across the Philippines. The project pilots local economic development initiatives in various communities across the country.

This internship will involve working with the Department of Interior and Local Government in one of the CUI’s projects in the Philippines (possibly Siquijor or Negros) to advance local economic development.

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RUSSIA

Organization Oxfam GB
Location Moscow, Russia
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.oxfam.ru
Position Description The role of the Media and Communications intern is to assist the Oxfam in Russia Office, under the supervision and with sign off of the responsible staff member (Media and Communications Officer, HR officer or other by appointment of the Country Director), with Media and Communications work:

  • Internal communications, including Oxfam Russia newsletter, contributing to regional and central newsletters of Oxfam GB, providing updates for Oxfam in Russia webpages, and other.
  • External communications, including media work, representing Oxfam in Russia at external events, producing public information, and other.
  • Marketing, including branded materials, corporate publications etc.

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SOUTH AFRICA

Organization Africa Health Placements (AHP)
Location Johannesburg, South Africa
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.ahp.org.za
Position Description The Strategic Information intern will work within AHP's Strategic Information Team, assisting with the modeling of program outcomes based on quantitative analysis of internal and national HR data, collection and analysis of data on research projects, and building models for national and hospital-level health workforce planning.

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SOUTH AFRICA

Organization The Nature's Valley Trust - Environmental Education
Location Nature's Valley, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.naturesvalleytrust.co.za
Position Description The Nature’s Valley Trust runs an award winning Environmental Education program, which has focused programs from pre-school to adult learner levels. We run eco-clubs and birding clubs in several schools, and use 20 custom designed outdoor classrooms to take learning outdoors. Our lessons are curriculum integrated and ensure children in our region get exposed to conservation work that impacts their local communities. We also host schools for environment days like World Oceans Day, Arbor Week, Water Week, etc. and occasionally have schools camping with us for 3-5 day programs. Our weekly schedule for our EE program varies. The intern is expected to be out with the program at least 2-3 days a week, with the office time used for preparing programs, updating resources and helping with our social media pages.

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SOUTH AFRICA

Organization The Nature's Valley Trust - Marine Debris
Location Nature's Valley, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.naturesvalleytrust.co.za
Position Description Litter on our beaches is a global concern for conservationists. To effectively manage the problem on the ground, we need to understand not only the various sources of the litter on our beaches, but also the user groups that are contributing disproportionately more waste than others. Once this has been accomplished, a well-designed conservation intervention campaign can be implemented to try to reduce the amount of local litter being left on our beaches. This internship involves lots of hours walking on one of the most amazing set of beaches in the world! Three times a week, from 7am-11am and from 2pm to 6pm, the intern will walk on the beach, documenting all litter encountered and all people using the beach. Using this and other existing data, the intern will help develop a campaign targeting beach users, to educate them and attempt to ensure better litter management on the beach.

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SOUTH AFRICA

Organization Nkosi's Haven
Location Johannesburg, South Africa
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.nkosishaven.org/
Position Description The Marketing Officer will ensure the growth objectives of Nkosi’s Haven village, haven and farm are met through the development and execution of an effective marketing strategy for specific projects undertaken, as well as the village on the whole to prospective funders, and the surrounding community.

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SPAIN

Organization Embassy of Canada to Spain - Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
Location Madrid, Spain
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.spain.gc.ca
Position Description The Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Service (FPDS) intern will have an opportunity to get acquainted with the workings of an embassy and to contribute to promoting the image of Canada in Spain. He or she will work to support the FPDS program, including public affairs, and bilateral and academic relations.

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SPAIN

Organization Embassy of Canada to Spain - Commercial and Economic Section
Location Madrid, Spain
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.spain.gc.ca
Position Description The Commercial and Economic Section intern will support Canada’s Trade Commissioners in their role in promoting key Canadian industries and Canada as an investment location, will help in the development of presentations and documents, will write reports on specific industries or on general economic issues, and may have the opportunity to attend conferences, meetings and trade shows.

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ST. KITTS & NEVIS

Organization Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF)
Location Basseterre, St. Kitts
Number of Placements 2
URL http://www.bntfskn.com ; http://www.caribank.org
Position Description
  •  Liaising with Community Liaison officer
  •  Conducting Transect Walks
  •  Preparing Drafts community needs and asset assessment
  •  Preparing Draft Project Proposals
  •  Conducting Community Meetings
  •  Drafting letters to organizations
  •  Liaising with other stakeholders
  •  Conducting interviews and reviewing documents

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SWEDEN

Organization International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) - ACE Secretariat
Location Stockholm, Sweden
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.idea.int; http://www.aceproject.org
Position Description The intern will support the ACE team in their development and maintenance of the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network.

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TAIWAN

Organization The Canadian Trade Office in Taipei - General Relations
Location Taipei, Taiwan
Number of Placements 1
URL  http://www.canada.org.tw/
Position Description Under the general supervision of officers in the General Relations Section of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, the intern will contribute to political, economic and security analyses. Additional responsibilities may include public affairs events planning and implementation.

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TAIWAN

Organization The Canadian Trade Office in Taipei - Trade
Location Taipei, Taiwan
Number of Placements 1
URL  http://www.canada.org.tw/
Position Description Under the general supervision of officers in the Trade Section of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, the intern will contribute to trade and investment analyses. Additional responsibilities may include trade event planning, outcalls on Taiwanese companies, providing information of use to Canadian clients as directed.

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TANZANIA

Organization AKTZ Industries Ltd (Alaska-Tanzania)
Location Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Number of Placements 1
URL None available
Position Description

Alaska-Tanzania would like to give opportunities to interns who are interested in agribusiness processing and value adding for Tanzania and the East African market.

Through York University, Alaska-Tanzania hopes it can work with two interns who would help to analyze the market potential of selected locally produced and imported foods.  Alaska-Tanzania would use the results of the analysis to contribute to its business plan and also use the results to choose how to expand its product line.

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TURKEY

Organization Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGIDER)
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.kagider.org/
Position Description The intern will work with one of the Program directors according to interest and assist her work during the internship period. KAGIDER runs three main programs:

  • Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership Program
  • Advocacy Program
  • International Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership Summit

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UGANDA

Organization Children of Hope
Location Lira, Uganda
Number of Placements 2
URL http://childrenofhopeuganda.org
Position Description  COHU works to support the war-affected youth of northern Uganda by:
• Paying partial school fees and providing scholastic materials to 163 children ages 11 to 18 who attend 31 primary and secondary schools in Lira, northern Uganda.
• Operating Barlonyo Technical and Vocational Institute for 138 youth, the majority of whom were formerly abducted by the LRA. BTVI trains students in carpentry, bricklaying and tailoring. There are 81 boarding students (61 in boys dorm, 20 in girls dorm) and 57 day students. COHU has inititated 4 school Income Generating Activities to make the school self-sustaining. The school IGA’s are a piggery, poultry raising, oxen ploughing and tilapia fish farming. Barlonyo is 50 minutes to the north of Lira, which is 6 hours north of Kampala. There are 12 faculty and staff at BTVI.
• Operating Barlonyo Early Childhood Development Centre for 300 children ages 2 to 7.
There are 4 teachers and 1 support staff at ECDC.
• Operating 8 Income Generating Activities (IGA’s) to enable the caregivers of the 163 beneficiary children to pay a greater share of school fees. These IGA’s are chicken, pig and goat rearing, oxen ploughing, bee-keeping, orange tree seedling planting, tailoring and paper bead jewelry making.
• Operating the COHU community Library at the Lira office for the 163 beneficiary children teachers from the 31 schools attended by the children and the whole community.
• Paying university tuition for 12 Aboke girls, who had been held captive by the LRA for 8 years, and paying partial school fees for their 18 young children, all born in captivity.

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UGANDA

Organization East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP)
Location Kampala, Uganda
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.defenddefenders.org/
Position Description The intern will work as part of the Advocacy/Research and Program teams to contribute to EHAHRDP's overall communications strategy, including work on the organization's public materials (website, printed materials, video and audio). The intern will also assist in other aspects of EHAHRDP's work, such as advocacy and training events.

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UGANDA

Organization The Shanti Uganda Society
Location Kasana, Luweero, Uganda
Number of Placements 2
URL http://www.shantiuganda.org
Position Description Any out of the 6 positions are available as per student interest, eligibility and appropriate match.

  • Assistant Project Coordinator
  • Women’s Income Generating Group (WIGG) Coordinator
  • Communications Coordinator
  • Monitoring & Evaluation Intern
  • Education Specialist / Researcher
  • Development & Partnership Coordinator

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UNITED KINGDOM

Organization The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
Location Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.sustainablepractice.org/fringe
Position Description The intern for the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts will work alongside Creative Carbon Scotland to co-host the Fringe Sustainable Practice Award. The intern will work independently and as well as a team to identify shows with sustainable themes or practices in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The focus of the intern's work will include outreach, scheduling, assessing productions, and providing communication between the productions and the organizations. The intern will attend drop-in information sessions and get involved with the community of sustainability artists in sharing ideas and resources.

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VIETNAM

Organization Embassy of Canada to Vietnam
Location Hanoi, Vietnam
Number of Placements 1
URL http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/vietnam/index.aspx?view=d
Position Description The intern at the Embassy of Canada in Vietnam will contribute to analysis and operations in support of Canada's official development assistance program in Vietnam. Working primarily as a member of the Canadian Development Assistance team in the Embassy, the intern will support research and analysis in related to CIDA's sectors of focus (primarily sustainable economic growth, with some food security and governance) as well as aid effectiveness.

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