Crossing Borders Interns Getting Ready to Go!
Congratulations to the ten UVic students selected to participate in CAPI’s 2015 Crossing Borders Internship Program.
These ten students will be leaving over the summer to spend six months working on community development and migrants’ rights issues with our partner organizations in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Nepal.
CAPI’s new Crossing Borders Internship and Scholarship Program is made possible with funding from the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship program – a joint initiative of Universities Canada (formerly the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada), Community Foundations of Canada and the Rideau Hall Foundation. Over the next four years (2015-2018), CAPI will be offering 60 student scholarships and internships.
Internships placements are 6-7 months long and represent a unique opportunity for experiential learning, the development of cross-cultural understanding and communication skills, and first-hand experience of grassroots community engagement and activism in the global south. Interns will receive academic credit through directed studies, their academic programs or as co-op placements. In the past, CAPI interns have been involved in conducting field research, contributing to ongoing projects and workshops, as well as attending regional and international conferences.
Here are the interns leaving this summer:
BACK ROW
Tabitha Black-Lock
Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit | Dhaka, Bangladesh
Michelle Maillet
Asian Human Rights and Culture Development Forum – Migrants’ Centre | Kathmandu, Nepal
Yasmine El-Hamamsy
Malaysian Social Research Institute | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
FRONT ROW
Jordan Konyk
Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit | Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kip Jorgensen
BRAC Migration Program | Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bridget Woods
Asia-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Roxanne Power
Society for Participatory Research in Asia | New Delhi, India
Siobhan Davis
Malaysian Social Research Institute | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Cam Giannotti
BRAC Migration Program | Dhaka, Bangladesh
Society for Participatory Research in Asia | New Delhi, India