INTERNSHIPS/VOLUNTEERISM IN AFRICA
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zanzibar
Camille Davidson:
"My semester abroad in South Africa was like nothing I could have ever imagined. I was given the unique opportunity to live in a country with an extremely rich history and the promise for an even fertile future. Studying abroad in any African country will guarantee to give students a rare juxtaposition of both the modern and traditional culture. I will forever cherish the experiences I had while living and learning in Cape Town. "
Lusaka, Zambia
Erika Chowa:
"I thank God for the Medical Experience I gained while in Zambia. First of all, being ½ Zambian, I got to go back to my beautiful and humble beginnings, reuniting with family I have not seen since I was a child. I traveled to Mwami SDA Hospital in Northern Zambia where I scrubbed in surgeries of all sorts and helped set up temporary village clinics. Seeing the amount of people that lined up every morning, really touched my heart and helped me realize the need of more health professionals in remote parts of the world. While in Lusaka the Capital city, I also had the opportunity of setting up my first ever Research Project at the University Teaching Hospital looking at the correlates of Hypertension among Zambian women. I had a fabulous time, while still learning a lot!!!"
Tanzania, Ghana
Kate Dickerson
" Traveling to Tanzania as a student, allowed me to immerse myself in a way of life that was so different then what I am used to.What inspired me and was most touching was how warm and beautiful the people were despite the adversity they face daily. My experience this past summer is something I will remember and reflect on for the rest of my life."
Benin
Joachim Boko:
"Being an intern at the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) in Benin last summer has been one of the most joyful and rewarding internship experience I ever have had. People were so warm and valued so much my contributions to the strategic planning process of the organization that I really felt I had been really useful. Praise God!"
Lesotho, South Africa and Zambia
Rachael Hellman:
" I only spent a few days in Lesotho, but they were some of the best of my entire experience abroad. I felt at peace in the quiet and simplicity. I breathed air that was pure. I woke up and saw not street signs or billboards, but clouds like cotton and mountains like a watercolor painting. The sounds I heard were not honking cars or heaving buses, but rather the soft hiss of wind through the cornstalks or a few cowbells in a field. At night, the sky was spilled glitter on black paper; shooting stars were visible every minute and the Milky Way was in plain view. Away from the internet and cell phones and TV, I felt like I was living.
Zambia: In Livingstone, Zambia, I met extremely friendly people and ate delicious food. My friends and I sat in a restaurant called “Da Fusion,” and ate shema with our hands. We slept inside mosquito nets and spent our days visiting local villages, zip-lining, and touring the one of the Natural Wonders of the World, Victoria Falls.
South Africa: I spent almost five months in South Africa. I’ve been home for about six months, and I still think about it every single day. I feel like I was just there, and I miss it terribly. I miss hearing Xhosa on my way to class in the morning. I miss the University of Cape Town, the most breathtakingly beautiful campus I have ever seen. I miss meeting students from all of South Africa, the African continent, and the world. I miss buying a giant eggplant or a bundle of tomatoes on the street. I miss 5 rand (about 50 cents!) minibus taxi rides downtown, and the pumping of the music that I heard along the way. I miss the mountains and the strength of the sun. I miss the markets, musicians on train rides, and women singing inside bus stations. I miss the babies that I held at the hospital where I volunteered and the kids I tutored at Baphumelele Children’s Home where I spent my Monday and Wednesday afternoons. I have not forgotten what I saw on the ride through Khayelitsha township—the hundreds of shacks, the makeshift barbershops, the people selling grilled corn outside. My experience in South Africa and the country itself is embedded in my soul.
Although I can never recreate my semester abroad, I hope to one day return. I think I need to."
Enoosaen, Kenya
Robyn Bracco:
"This past summer, I had the opportunity to travel to a village in rural Kenya called Enoosaen to conduct preliminary research for my doctoral dissertation. I am developing a distance learning model to be used as a tool for upper-primary education and I truly valued the opportunity to talk to teachers, administrators, and students there. Reading about education in a context much different from our American way is one thing; having the chance to travel and experience it first-hand is quite another.
I am anxiously anticipating my trip back this summer."
Eliada Nwosu: Karagwe, Tanzania
Nosakhere Griffin-EL: Karagwe, Tanzania\Nakuru, Kenya
- Julie Moore: - South Africa
- Mari Paz: - Rwanda
- Emily Perotta :- Tanzania, Kenya
Sesi Aliu : - Malawi
