Ethiopia 2010
Begins: 1 Jun 2010
Ends: 31 Jul 2010
Supervisor: Bertha Amisi
Language Requirement: An Amharic class will be set up in Spring semester, and students will continue with a teacher in Addis Ababa.
Required courses: Designing Collaborative Development, Global Perspectives on Reproductive Health, Program Development and Project Management
*one or more of the above courses will fullfill the requirement
Concentrations: Development, Cities and Urbanization
Ends: 31 Jul 2010
Supervisor: Bertha Amisi
Language Requirement: An Amharic class will be set up in Spring semester, and students will continue with a teacher in Addis Ababa.
Required courses: Designing Collaborative Development, Global Perspectives on Reproductive Health, Program Development and Project Management
*one or more of the above courses will fullfill the requirement
Concentrations: Development, Cities and Urbanization
Program Description:
In this third year of the Ethiopia program, students in Ethiopia will work with a range of organizations including local and international NGOs around the issues of HIV/AIDS outreach and treatment, education and children and youth programs, capacity building, income generation.
Eligibility: Amharic class and required academic course in Spring.
Potential Summer 2010 Projects:
- Primary school needs assessment follow up with Vital SEEDS, a grassroots organization that is opening primary schools in impoverished neighborhoods.
- Curriculum development and youth programming for Forum for Street Children in Addis Ababa.
- Sex workers' income generation projects: Work with sex workers being trained in acupuncture and help find other income generating opportunities as well as helping to facilitate trained clients in the establishing of their new jobs.