By Sarena Chan | Senior Program Officer
Tooba from Kabul, Afghanistan
Economics Major, graduated Class of 2018Internship Placement: UN Women in New York CityTooba completed her first hurdle of the summer by gaining her visa to enter the U.S. so that she can start her internship at UN Women in New York City. She has been looking forward to this experience in particular because she has the opportunity to be placed on two different teams during her internship: the South-South Cooperation program team and the Disabled Women and Children team. On the South-South Cooperation, she is researching the role of south-south cooperation and triangular cooperation, and on the disability team, she will be researching disability in the context of Afghanistan.
Because she is the only Afghan woman in the internship program as well as the few undergraduate intern, in a cohort of graduate and PhD students, Tooba has been experiencing some imposter syndrome during her first two weeks. She feels her fellow interns have at least five years of work experience, noting the average age at UN Women is 42 years old and she herself has only previous work experience as a finance intern last summer. Overall, she has found the team very friendship and personable, and that “has allowed her to grow personally and professionally.” She will be returning to Kabul in August.
Shagufa from Herat, Afghanistan
Economics Major; will graduate as Class of 2019Internship Placement: Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) of Boston Medical Center in Boston“This summer I am involved in a volunteering program called Refugee Patient Navigator (RPNs) in Boston Center for Refugees Health and Human Right at Boston Medical Center (BMC). In one side, this volunteering opportunity helps me to get involve in social activities and communicate with refugees from diverse communities with fantastic stories. Presently, I have been assigned to provide data & information of free events, program, sport club and other free opportunities that has been offered for public and people in every 57 town of Boston- Massachusetts. This outcome of this research aware the BCRHHHR‘s patients to involve in entertainment and activities for free.”
Sabira from Bamyan, Afghanistan
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Major, will graduate as Class of 2019Internship Placement: Bandhu Social Welfare Society in Dhaka, Bangladesh“One of the main goals of Bandhu Social Welfare Society is to develop the health condition of Hijra (transgender) people in Bangladesh. Taking environmental Health course and Urban-WASH will help to find out the problem within their living environment and water, sanitation and hygiene which these are very essential for a healthy life. Moreover, I could share my knowledge that already learnt from professor in the class with the NGO’s colleagues.
[In this internship,] I would be part of Multi-country South Asia Global Fund HIV Program (MSA). As this program is a multi-country program with same goals and objectives could give me the opportunity to learn more about working across the border. Also this program has implement in my home country which is Afghanistan. Therefore, working with same program in Bangladesh will help me in further opportunities in future back in Afghanistan.”
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
