Public Health, Psychology, Business/Development, Social Work/Justice Internship in Cape Town, South Africa
Gain Professional Experience in South Africa!
4 Weeks, 22 May â 16 June 2017, option to extend
Open the doors to your future by participating in this truly unique internship, offering professional, hands-on experiences that most internships cannot offer. Grow from intern and student to educator and advisor via research, training, and exposure to the underserved communities. Internships are customized to fit the career goals of each person.
Make an impact in the lives of others while experiencing your own life-altering journey. The breathtaking city of Cape Town proffers the unique dichotomy of the exceedingly underserved communities scattered among the splendid European-like African city. With eleven official languages and exceedingly deeply-rooted cultures, South Africa is rich in diversity and unique complexities. You will be challenged to overcome physical and mental health, financial, and oppressive barriers for those most in need. You will be drawn to the underserved South Africans, as they touch deeply into your soul and inspire you to work beyond the capabilities you ever imagined for yourself with a new-found compassion, outlook, and strength. Your work to overcome the abundant challenges of the residents is sure to be profoundly rewarding.
This fully-mentored internship program features an array of field work in the fields of public health, specifically health promotion, mental health/psychology, social work, business, marketing, economics/finance. Interns perform research in the communities alongside established South African NGO's making remarkable impacts. The scope of the research is developed directly by the interns under the guidance of the Impilo Phambili program director. The research, exposure, and learning experience culminates into workshops and projects developed and conducted predominantly by the interns for community members and to train/educate NGO staff, health care workers, entrepreneurs, and students. Depending on your specific field of interest and work, there are many options for a final culminating project.
Applicable Fields of Study/Interest:
⢠Public Health/Health/Health Promotion
⢠Pre-med/Nursing
⢠Nutrition
⢠Business/Management
⢠Environmental Health/Sciences
⢠Exercise Physiology/Kinesiology
⢠Social Work
⢠Biotechnology
⢠Physical Therapy
⢠Advertising/Marketing
⢠Community Development
⢠Education
⢠Anthropology
⢠Behavioral Health/Psychology
⢠Global/International Studies
⢠Other related field
The cost to participate in the program is $2300.00 USD and includes:
â¢Housing for the duration of the internship
â¢Transportation to and from the airport upon arrival to and departure from Cape Town, South Africa (Airfare to Cape Town in NOT included)
â¢Breakfast pack of various items upon arrival
â¢Local cell phone & SIM card to use throughout programme
â¢On the ground support, orientations, and overall guidance and opportunities to meet and interact with South Africans and other interns alike
â¢Ground transportation to the internship sites and return (does not include airfare)
â¢Access to local organisations and community
â¢Direct guidance from the programme director, who will provide overall and technical training and education
â¢Language Classes
â¢Education on South African history and current health status and climate
â¢Opportunities to work with previously-collected data from the local community, to learn, and to educate
â¢Gaining experience in leadership, project development, and hands-on work
â¢Tours, discounted activities, and much more!
This experience is specifically for the enhancement of the participants. The interns are the focus and are given much attention for the development and enhancement of their academic and professional skills. We work very closely with each participant and semi-customise the experience to best meet the objectives and desires of each intern, predominantly in the fields of public health/medicine/nutrition, psychology/mental health/counselling, business/leadership/development, social work/justice. We work with underserved South Africans and other vulnerable populations, including women, children, victims, and refugees.
Interns are treated as peers/colleagues and expected and given the autonomy to take initiative and make decisions based on critical thinking. However, this internship programme is unique in the mentorship and guidance we provide. Thus, interns are tasked with professional, mission-critical activities, given the freedom to develop course of action, while also having professional guidance upon which to rely when needed. Interns must have a desire to learn on a professional level and seize the potential this opportunity provides by having the commitment to learning and performing their work to the calibre expected. As a result, the interns will attain an experience that will assist in opening the doors to their future goals and have unique skill sets that are not learned in an academic setting and are slowly learned in a job setting that is not catered to intern talents and objectives. This experience is individualised for each intern, so they are ahead of competition for future aspirations.