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CIPA Home :Other Opportunities: Service-Learning Abroad Service AbroadUPGRADE UPGRADE: Undergraduate Program in Global Research and Development 2008 The Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA) administers an undergraduate grant for Emory College students who wish to gain practical hands-on sustainable development training by doing service in developing countries over the summer. This non-credit bearing program allows students to approach their time abroad from a different angle and focuses on students with a distinct set of skills and experiences. The training will be done through the Foundation for Sustainable Development http://www.fsdinternational.org/?q=intlopps/intlopps . The best UPGRADE recipient automatically becomes the Stefanie Canright Scholarship recipient and will receive an award of $4,500. See details http://www.cipa.emory.edu/alternatives/service.cfm#canright
This is a 9-10 weeks internship that is hands-on development training and community engagement opportunities for intermediate to advanced students who can handle the physical and emotional demands of a 40 hour/week field work schedule. FSD partners with organizations in seven countries ( Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru and Uganda). FSD partners with organizations that can be categorized in 7 different development subjects: The program provides students with the structure needed to collaboratively engage project work in a safe and supported manner. Internships involve the following elements to optimize the overall cultural and developmental impact on the students and the communities they support: Development Training – FSD and its in-country site teams provide comprehensive development training to prepare students for every step of their internship. Training begins during the pre-departure process with FSD materials/phone support and continues on an experiential level throughout their time spent incountry. The training program is a three step process that builds development skills and cultural competencies: a. Community Integration Training During the seven day orientation, interns learn from community leaders and the FSD site team how to adapt to the local culture. Additionally, interns work with our site teams to explore how differing value systems and worldviews affect development efforts. Topics include: • Safety and Health • Language Training (by request for Latin America) • Best Practices for Community Engagement • Local Development Issues • Local Value Systems and Worldviews • Introduction to the North/South Dichotomy b. Development Skill - Building During the second part of orientation and throughout the internship program, interns experientially learn a set of development skills that address: • Community and Organizational Needs Assessment Tools • Rights-Based Approach to Development • Participatory Learning and Action Approach (PLA) • Community Mapping and Partnership Building • Collaborative Project Design and Management (PDM) • Grant Proposal Writing • Integrating Sustainability into Project Work • Project Monitoring and Evaluation c. Cultural Activities and Group Sessions FSD also provides regular activities and a midterm retreat to help interns reflect on their daily efforts and see the connections between their work and the broader emotional, social, economic and political context of international development. Activities vary between countries, but typically include: • Group Service Projects • Adventure Trips • Further exploration into the North/South Dichotomy • Local Festivals and Events • Book Discussion Groups • Movie/Documentary Nights There are also regular group meetings for interns to air concerns, ask questions of the site team, share experiences, and see fellow interns. These forums offer them the opportunity to verbalize perspective shifts and emotional challenges in a safe, group context. Facilitation of group sessions is done by our local site teams whose aim is to further develop each intern’s world-centric perspective Site team members consistently visit organizations during the week to see how interns are progressing and address any problems that arise. It is very common for interns to arrange private meetings with site team members to discuss issues and gain help to develop project work. Site teams are always available for these meetings. Following the mid-term retreat interns are often comfortable in their surroundings and need less opportunities to decompress, but the site team continues to visit sites and be available for any issues that come up. Together, our training program offers over 80 hours of training, activities, and processing sessions to support and add capacity to interns. We can provide a more specific breakdown of trainings in each program location when locations have been selected for Emory. Accommodation – Students live individually with host families. These accommodations ensure full immersion into the local language and culture, while providing a chance to form relationships with an extended family and community. Host Organization Introduction – Upon completion of the orientation, the FSD Site Team will introduce each student to their direct supervisor at the host organization. During this stage, students familiarize themselves with the organization and its staff, interviewing them to gain a full understanding of the resources, people, and projects currently in progress. Each student will work individually with their host organization to ensure immersion. FSD Site Team – Each program site features a locally born Program Director, a local Operational Manager, and at least one Program Coordinator from the U.S. or other Western nations. Together, they will develop a solid working relationship with each student, integrating them into the community and ensuring that they have the tools to be successful in their work. Any problems that arise throughout the internship will be addressed by the FSD Site Team on a 24 hour basis. Sustainability Plan/Final Grant Report – In summation of the internship, students produce a description of what they accomplished and experienced while working with their host organization and community. This exercise is to help students process their experience while also documenting the impact they achieved. Lastly, the Sustainability Plan provides the next intern at the specific host organization with information they need to hit the ground running, thus allowing for continuity between interns and projects. Interns also write Final Grant Reports to explain the objective results of their project work. Pre-requisites: The nature of this program requires the students to be/have the following:
Econ/AFS: Political Economy of African Development Global Health, Culture and Society 102: Introduction to Global Health Core Issues in Global Health 300SWR: Development and Social Ethics POLS 317: Global Human Rights SOC 389S/ WS385S, Gender and Global Health
The last 4 aspects and the student’s general preparedness will be evaluated partially in your statement of purpose, partially in the mandatory pre-application meeting.
These are the steps:
Deadline: January 15 – committee meeting last week in January.
Student will receive an email from FSD within 48 hours confirming receipt of the application materials.
* Starting with summer 2009: 120 hours ** Here are 2 off-campus and 2 on-campus organizations that have gladly agreed to be working with Emory students intending to applying for UPGRADE; these are suggestions only and there are many other opportunities in Atlanta.
Please contact Cornelia Lindenau at CIPA with any questions at: 404-727-2240 or culinde@emory.edu. Stefanie Canright Endowed Scholarship FundStefanie Erin Canright graduated from Emory College with a B.A. in Psychology in 2000. Originally from San Juan Capistrano, California, Stefanie was president of her sorority, Delta Delta Delta, and was very active in her local community both at Emory and at home in California.
Stefanie was a great lover of travel and adventure, as well as a proponent of education continuing outside the classroom. Stefanie Canright Recipient Summer 2006: Elizabeth Sholtys 07C It all began rather unexpectedly. While attending high school in Pune and working at various large, depressing institutions for street children and orphans, I imagined an alternative, more family-like approach to caring for these marginalized children. But I had also bought into the mainstream notions of an established order of life events, one that definitely did not include founding NGOs or assuming guardianship of children while still in college. As a freshman at Emory in 2004, however, it occurred to me while reading an uninspiring article on welfare reform that there was technically no reason that I couldn’t start a home for street kids in India. The more I mulled it over, the more concrete it became in my mind. I was fortunate to know a group of fellow college students from around the world who were sufficiently unconventionally minded to embrace this pie-in-the-sky proposal, and soon, what had been a fleeting idea evolved into steadfast determination: we would open this home. The organization that we founded in April 2004, the Ashraya Initiative for Children, was the embodiment of this vision. When I returned to India in the summer of 2004, … continue here: http://www.international.emory.edu/pdf/winter2006.pdf “Ashraya” is the Hindi word for home, protection, refuge, and trust—exactly what the initiative seeks to provide. Sholtys founded the initiative as a freshman, and in her junior year successfully opened the home, which provides former street children with shelter, food, medical care, access to education and a loving family structure for the first time in their lives. More information about Elizabeth’s home can be found at www.ashrayainitiative.org. Stefanie Canright Recipient Summer 2007: Paige Wilson 08C Read more about Paige and her endeavors in India here. Emory Global Health Field Scholar AwardsThe Emory Global Health Institute funds three field scholarship programs to which Emory students are eligible to apply. The three types of GHI Field Scholars are (1) Individual Field Scholars, (2) Team Field Scholars, and (3) Partner Site Field Scholars. The global health experience can happen in any country, including the U.S. The determining factor is that the experience be with a vulnerable and underserved population. The student must justify the experience and the population. For additional information please see the Global Health Institute’s website: http://www.globalhealth.emory.edu/fundingOpportunities/globalLearning.php These three scholarship programs provide Emory students with opportunities to work on a variety of short-term global health projects in the field in partnership with in-country organizations. College undergraduate students go through a first application round through the CIPA office; an Emory College faculty committee will review, score and prioritize the applications that they receive from all the students in the college and will then forward them to GHI. A multidisciplinary team make final decisions for the award winners from all the professional schools and the college. The deadline for 2008 is March 10, 2008 Notification should be by April 11, 2008, if not before. The global health experience can happen in any country, including the U.S. The determining factor is that the experience be with a vulnerable and underserved population. The student must justify the experience and the population. For additional information please see the Global Health Institute’s website: http://www.globalhealth.emory.edu/fundingOpportunities/globalLearning.php Eligibility requirements for College students are: • All current Emory University students who are in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 3.0 are eligible to apply for funding through their school • The field experience must be a minimum of six weeks (in very exceptional cases, a semester is possible) • At least one area studies course • Student must have prior research experience/classes or participation in an independent project • Proficiency in the language of the country is preferred, but not mandatory (for Latin America: two Spanish language classes mandatory) • Student must have completed at least one year at Emory • Student must return to Emory for at least one semester after their global field experience. All College students are required to participate in a one-day workshop in spring semesters and will be asked to attend 2-4 evening events prior to their departure. Details on the three possible projects:
For more information regarding the Institute’s Field Scholar Programs, please contact Cornelia Lindenau at culinde@emory.edu at CIPA.
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