PEOPLE
Shane Achilla
Kenya
I undertook my internship at the Africa Refugee Development Center (ARDC), as a coordinator for the Education for Humanity program. Through this experience, I enhanced my theoretical and practical skills in monitoring and evaluating development projects. Secondly, I gained a deeper understanding of the causes and effects of current global development problems including poverty, inequality, climate change, conflicts, and migration.
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Skyler Inman
United States
Following my work on Intractable, a podcast investigating the Israel-Palestine Conflict through audio storytelling, I was drawn towards GLOCAL, as a means of exploring further the intersections of conflict, peace-building, economic development, and migration. For my GLOCAL internship, Skyler worked at Mesila, a south Tel Aviv-based organization working with families from the city’s asylum-seeking and migrant worker communities.
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Lior Malka
Israel
I chose to intern in Kav LaOved (KLO) in Tel Aviv. My internship in KLO and my studies at Glocal have brought me to understand the importance of community resilience, and what can be done to preserve and develop it. Glocal has broadened my horizons, supporting my creativity and making me able to design special projects, for the organization and for the asylum-seeking community both of whom are now facing an impossible reality.
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Hila Nadir
Israel
I conducted my 4-month internship with a grassroots NGO called Apne Aap Women’s Collective (AAWC) located in Mumbai's red-light district, which supports women in prostitution and their children, in order to prevent “second-generation trafficking” into the sex industry. There, I assisted the organization with its communication and fundraising efforts and created and led a series of life-skills workshops for its beneficiary girls.
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Anya Shats
Israel
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.
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Maia Brandstadter
Argentina
During the internship component of the Glocal program, I was a Programs Officer at IsraAID. Glocal helped me to build a comprehensive and broad perspective of International Development and its complexities. My internship brought me closer to the everyday challenges of this field while balancing the needs, the possibilities, and the potential of all stakeholders. Hence, Glocal was an exciting opportunity to acquire tools and knowledge about humanitarianism, community work, gender, and feminism.
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Gilan Miller-Gertz
USA/Israel
During my internship, I worked with Ajeec-Nisped’s Knowledge Center in Be’er Sheva, Israel. There, I learned how to manage a book writing and publishing project from start to finish, together with gaining knowledge about Bedouin society and how to adapt key mental wellness concepts to the needs of this community. Furthermore, my experience with Ajeec-Nisped taught me how to take a concept for a social business and turn it into a practical plan.
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Daniela Smid Sarnow
Mexico
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.
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Amalia Noemi Martínez
Argentina
In my internship at IsraAID HQ, I worked in organizational strengthening processes and projects. My main takeaways from the internship are experiencing the challenges of implementing extensive participatory approaches, understanding how necessary and beneficial they are; and learning about the difficulties of organizational growth and field professionalization, alongside the implementation of development programs and emergency responses.
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Yaniv Teitel
Israel
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.
Shikha Kashyap
India
With the understanding of cultural similarities between Nepal and India, I chose to pursue my internship with Restless Development in Nepal, an INGO that aims to bring young people to the decision-making table across areas of civic participation, livelihood, and sexual and reproductive health. I contributed to the curriculum design and implementation of a project called Zero Tolerance and created a procedure to sensitively handle cases of violence.
Samantha Errasquin
Mexico City
During the internship component of the Glocal program, I interned with Sidreh Lakiya. Learning about the organization’s social business, Bedouin culture, and the struggles that Bedouin women go through in Israel, also allowed me to learn a lot and to contribute to the mission of Sidreh.
Orly Heiblum Lulka
Mexico
During my internship, I learned a lot about the African asylum-seeking community in Israel, and migration more generally, through different angles, allowing me to develop a broader understanding of this complex issue. One of the main lessons I take from GLOCAL is that whatever cause or population we choose to work with, we need to educate ourselves in every aspect related to it.
Nimati Tahhan
Occupied Palestinian Territories
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.