Intern in Argentina

About FSD in La Plata, Argentina
FSD partners with various community-based organizations in La Plata to work toward youth development and education. Although Argentina has an extremely high literacy rate--at 97 percent--there is still serious deficiency in educational support for marginalized children. After the economic crisis in 2001, many lived in severe poverty, which left a larger percentage of children with inadequate living conditions and educational support. Even though children are still attending school, there is a high demand for educational support outside of school, which includes tutor programs, community libraries, and supplemental educational programs in the arts, agriculture, health, hygiene, physical activity, sex education, and peer mentorship.
To help address these issues, FSD's programs promote collaboration to enhance the capacity of individuals and organizations to address these pressing education issues.

As an FSD Intern in La Plata, Argentina, you will...
- Work side-by-side with a Community-Based Organization specializing in one more of the following development sectors: health, youth and education, women's empowerment, microfinance, human rights, community development and/or environmental issues.
- Receive intensive training in skills essential to sustainable development, such as: community asset mapping, needs assessments, collaborative project design, grant writing, and project monitoring and evaluation.
- Gain grant writing and project management experience through designing and implementing a community-driven development project in partnership with your host organization.
- Access the FSD Alumni Network upon your return home to connect with like-minded individuals who help one another to reach their academic and professional goals through networking and regional events. FSD Alumni have won internationally renowned scholarships, studied at prestigious graduate schools, worked for prominent international development organizations, and have even started their own grassroots organizations.

Recent Interns in La Plata, Argentina have...
- Improved the level of education offered to working individuals and those who are otherwise excluded from traditional education by giving capacity-building courses in computer and English skills.
- Trained marginalized youth on how to create a sustainable food source that offers hunger relief and a marketable skill for their future in an FSD organic vegetable garden project.
- Provided counseling, tutoring, English classes, arts and crafts, cooking courses, computer science classes, and meals for vulnerable children and their mothers at a daycare center.

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