INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (3)
Position: Guatemala Youth Internships
Organization: New Hope Foundation (partner of the Tatamagouche Centre)
http://www.tatacentre.ca
Date posted to GoodWorkCanada.ca: Nov 1, 2006
Application deadline: Nov 4, 2006
Start date: Dec 1, 2006
Location: Tatamagouche NS & Guatemala
Tatamagouche Centre is pleased to announce that they have
received addition funding for three Youth Internships in
Guatemala from the Canadian International Development
Agency through the Canadian government's Youth
Employment Strategy. (More information on the
CIDA Internship program is available at
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/youth.)
Our Internship stipend covers room, board and travel costs
during the Internship period, and is sufficient to cover
incidental expenses. If you have a Student Loan, you may
defer it for the period of the Internship. You are responsible
for travel costs to and from Tatamagouche at the beginning
and end of the Internship.
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1. INTERNSHIP TITLE: Indigenous Teacher Development
& Community Liaison Adviser, Fundacion Nueva
Esperanza (New Hope Foundation)
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Background
In 1996, Jesus Tecu Osorio founded the Fundacion Nueva
Esperanza (FNE) with the funds he received from the
Reebok Human Rights Award. It offered educational
support (scholarships, computer training and tutoring) to
Maya-Achi youth whose parents were victims or survivors
of the 1980s genocide, thus contributing to the construction
of a just and democratic state. In 2003 they opened the New
Hope Secondary School to offer educational opportunities
for youth affected by the violence and to facilitate
occupational, personal, social, and cultural programs
designed to overcome causes and effects of the violence.
Through contacts made by a 2001-02 Intern with the FNE,
we developed a 2002-03 Internship, followed by Intern
placements in 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06. These
Internships have been excellent placements, from the
perspectives of the Intens and the FNE, and the 2006-07
intern will be arriving in Guatemala at the end of October
2006. We also send annual human rights delegations to
visit the Fundacion and have sent two carpentry teams to
the FNE to work WITH (RATHER THAN FOR!) the
parents and students in the construction of FNE's first
school buildings. The Fundacion Director traveled
throughout the Maritimes in 2003 and 2004, creating
significant relationships as he shared the FNE's experience
in high schools and universities and fund-raised for the
school.
The FNE is in its sixth year of hosting IYIP interns, all of
whom have received excellent supervision from the FNE
Director, Guillermo Chen. The FNE also hosts, on a regular
basis, International cooperants and volunteers.
Work placement responsibilities
In collaboration with the Bufete Juridical Popular board
and staff, the Intern will:
* Support the innovative efforts of the FNE to further
develop an ongoing professional development program
offered for teachers at the FNE's Community Institute, a
Maya-Achi inter-cultural school, through the design and
implementation of workshops to help teachers to improve
their teaching, using creative and participatory educational
methodologies
* Be an integral part of a development team that makes
linkages between the Community Institute and the FNE
and the wider Rabinal community, by creating and
implementing a strategy for community engagement,
cross-cultural learning and exchange.
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2. INTERNSHIP TITLE: Gender & Community
Development Adviser, Bufete Jurídico Popular de Rabinal
(Rabinal Community Legal Aid Office)
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Background:
The Bufete's original, legal, objective is the fulfillment of
the 1996 Peace Accords by facilitating access by victims of
genocide and crimes against humanity to the legal system
and the National Restitution Commission. Because of its
awareness of family violence and the lack of response to
this issue in the legal system and the community, the
Bufete is also responding to issues of family violence,
and the lack of response to this issue in the community
and the legal system.
Tatamagouche Centre has had a relationship with Jesus
Tecu and the Bufete Juridical Popular since 2000. We sent
our first Intern to the Bufete Juridical in 2001-02, and have
since placed a retired lawyer and a law student to work
with them. They recently renewed their request for an
Intern.
The Intern and professional volunteers placed with the
Bufete Juridical Popular have had excellent experiences.
The Coordinator and staff lawyer are highly committed to
and capable of offering an Intern with a satisfying, well-
supervised experience. In 2006-2007, an intern will begin a
placement with the Bufete Juridico Popular de Rabinal as a
Human Rights Adviser.
Work Placement Responsibilities:
In collaboration with the Bufete Juridical Popular board
and staff, the Intern will:
* Carry out training workshops, awareness raising activities
and research that will enable Maya-Achi women and their
community organizations, to gain a deeper understanding
of gender issues, which will particularly enable them to
more fully participate in municipal and departamental
development councils and judicial institutions.
* Develop and implement family violence and sensitization
workshops, and support women who come to the Bufete
Juridico Popular with such cases
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3. INTERNSHIP TITLE: Gender and Sexuality
Educator, Nuevos Horizontes
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Background:
Nuevos Horizontes, a non-profit organization based in
Quetzaltenango, supports women and children in situations
of need. It offers a unique combination of services that
include: a shelter and family support for abused women and
children and those in situations of social risk, legal
accompaniment and support, childcare centers, community
education in the topics of human rights, gender, self-
esteem, and sexuality, a medical clinic and psychological
therapy, and training centers for women.
The Guatemala Breaking the Silence program of
Tatamagouche Centre has had a relationship with Nuevos
Horizontes since 2002, when we placed our first CIDA
Intern there. In 2002-03, we placed a second Intern there.
In 2004-05 and 2005-06, we placed volunteers with Nuevos
Horizontes for six months. Tatamagouche Centre has been
pleased with the supervision and work experiences of
previous Interns and volunteers placed with Nuevos
Horizontes.
Work Placement Responsibilities:
The Intern will work with the community education unit of
Nuevos Horizontes, with a particular focus on gender and
sexuality education with elementary, junior high, high
school students, and women's groups. Themes for
workshops and presentations may include gender justice,
sexuality, self-esteem, HIV/AIDS, violence, women's
rights, and women's integral health education (physical,
mental, social and reproductive health).
The Intern will, with Guatemalan counterparts to support
instutional and program objectives by means of :
* Designing and implementing workshops (including
relevant material such as visual aids), on themes such as
gender justice, sexuality, self-esteem, HIV/AIDS, women's
rights, violence and women's integral health education
(physical, mental, social and reproductive health).
* Participate as a tutor in literacy classes for women.
* Support the process for financial sustainability and
organizational development
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FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY:
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http://www.tatacentre.ca/Guatemalawebsite/Internships.html
Questions? E-mail to jmcvicar@gmail.com
