Internship

Change for Children participates in CIDA's International Youth Internship Program.

The program offers young Canadian post-secondary graduates the opportunity to gain valuable international development work experience. For more information www.acdi-cida.gc.ca

2007/08 Canadian International Development Agency and Change for Children Intern

Meet Diana Kim new intern-Coming Soon!!

2004/05 CIDA Youth Internship in Roatan, Honduras

Change for Children's 2005/06 CIDA intern is Lynn Sutankayo, who is a recent Educational Policy graduate from the University of Alberta. In November ’05, she will work in Roatan, Honduras with our partner organization, Familias Saludables, an organization devoted to fighting the AIDS epidemic on Roatan.

2004/05Youth Internship in Eritrea
This year, I (Laura Roberts) was given the exciting opportunity to be Change for Children’s CIDA intern. I officially started my internship in July 2004 in Edmonton working at the Change for Children office for 4 months, and later in November I left Edmonton to work for 6 months with Change for Children’s partner NGO in Eritrea: The National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW).NUEW works in a variety of different capacities mobilizing women throughout the country and implementing projects on FGM, Women’s Rights, Literacy Education, Reproductive Health, Micro-credit, etc. To learn more in detail about what NUEW does please see their website: www.nuew.org Since I arrived in Eritrea, my colleagues at NUEW have been keeping me busy with a number of different projects and activities. Initially, I dove right into things and got to know my new work environment rather quickly, as NUEW was preparing for its 25th anniversary. There were many festivities that they organized to commemorate this event, so it was major undertaking and I was central to the organizing effort. One of the major activities of the anniversary celebrations was a 4 day conference that over 400 women delegates from across the country attended. The conference included a couple official ceremonies where distinguished guests and government representatives came and participated, including the President of Eritrea, Mr. Isais Afrewerki. The conference was a great introduction to the issues women in Eritrea are presenting facing, as there were a variety of academics and government ministers who came to participate in the conference to present and discuss different women’s issues. My major role throughout the conference was to take photos and shoot some footage for the compilation of a video documenting the organization’s silver anniversary.

After the conference we all took a well-deserved holiday for some days, and then after it was back to work as usual. I am very excited to be working with such a grassroots women’s organization, and already feel it will be hard to leave after my internship is finished in May 2005. In the meantime, I intend to make the most of my time here and assist the women in a variety of ways to support their many important projects and activities. To stay up to date as to my time here in Eritrea you can visit my website.