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Into the Fields Summer Internship
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Organization:
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)
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Location:
United States
Language(s):
English, Spanish
End date:
August 8, 2010
Last updated:
September 29, 2009
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Area of Focus:
Farming and Agriculture, Health and Medicine, Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Start date:
June 1, 2010
Last day to apply:
February 12, 2010
Paid or unpaid:
Paid
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Description:
Spend your summer meeting and supporting the people who plant and harvest and produce the food you eat everyday! Through Into the Fields you will support and organize farmworkers, get trained on the issues surrounding their lives and the broader context of the agricultural industry. SAF places 30 college students to work with organizations in the Southeast that serve, organize or advocate for farmworker justice including migrant health clinics, legal aid, community-based organizations and Education programs. Interns also participate in a Theater Group or complete a Documentary Project with farmworkers.
To qualify you must speak intermediate to advanced Spanish. To be preferenced you must be a college student from a farmworker family or be a student from the Southeast.
Benefits include $1250 total per diem, $1500 scholarship, free furnished housing, free trainings and some travel costs, academic credit available.
Check out www.saf-unite.org for the brochure and more information.
Application instructions:
Applications available online Jan.1st and due Feb.12, 2009. Contact Melanie Stratton Lopez, Internship Coordinator, Student Action with Farmworkers. 919-660-3652, melanie.stratton@duke.edu
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Permalink:
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Internship/142897-91/c
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