I interned with the African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) in Tel Aviv, a non-profit organization founded by refugees and Israeli citizens to assist, support, and empower refugees and asylum seekers in Israel; this was an excellent experience to learn and expand upon many transferable skills in the field of community development.
For my GLOCAL internship, I worked at the Practical Permaculture Institute of Zanzibar, Tanzania. This institute, operating since 2016, provides permaculture education to a wide range of populations, local and international, reaching more than 700 people in Tanzania and worldwide. I carried out two projects at PPIZ which included collating qualitative data, analysis, and writing a final report with recommendations.
Certified social worker and Glocal alumni. She has worked in the humanitarian field in Uganda and Israel, where she gained insights into the unique challenges and acute burden of excluded communities. Her first-hand experience working with people experiencing homelessness in Israel, allowed her to identify a gap and act to fill it. She is the co-founder of the first of its kind program in Israel, “Street Medicine Israel” with Home-Base NGO. Together they provide medical care for people experiencing homelessness.
A 2022 Glocal graduate from Cyprus and the UK. Attending an intercommunal Jazz peace program in divided Cyprus led her to pursue music professionally as a Jazz vocalist and she holds a Bachelors of Music from The Guildhall School of Music in London. She has led and facilitated music enrichment projects with children of asylum seekers and youth at risk and has experience in multicultural youth programs, peace initiatives and education. Charlotte is currently based in Tel Aviv and writing her thesis for Glocal on "Music communities and development". Her main fields of interest are cultural diplomacy, youth & education and music/arts for social change.
During my internship with Kayan, I learned about developing gender-based projects and activities with women and youth. I also learned about how to conduct needs assessments, evaluations, training, building and implementing a campaign, interacting with the community and women, building gender-based projects, and about the organization's structure and how different organizations work together.
I conducted my internship at the High Atlas Foundation, based in Marrakech, Morocco. I will take with me the experience in the field that relates to the tensions between social change and self-empowerment; in particular, how to combine the vocabulary and methodologies used in social change and critical approaches with the methodologies of self-empowerment.
A lot of people told me that the Hebrew University was the best university in Israel. The professors are incredibly accessible. In terms of classes, there’s great discussion – they really want to involve you. It’s a really good environment to learn in.
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