INTERNSHIPS: CLASS OF 2008 HEALTH COMMUNICATION AT ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Beauty Agbavor and Laura Newman both spent the summer in Accra, Ghana working at Academy for Educational Development's "Ghana Sustainable Change Project." The Ghana Sustainable Change Project is a 5–year AED/USAID health communication project based that focuses on HIV/AIDS, malaria, breastfeeding, and other important health issues. Beauty was responsible for designing a template for the disbursement and tracking of GSCP funds released to various NGO partners and compiled and consolidated planning and monitoring reports. She also assisted with the evaluation of GSCP's campaign district rollout strategy, using the Agona district and sub district rollout of breastfeeding and complementary feeding campaigns as a case study.
Laura worked with the Health Communications Department, where she helped produce a HIV/AIDS entertainment–education drama miniseries. She was responsible for writing a project proposal, budget, strategic plan, and assisted with planning stigma training workshops for scriptwriters, actors, and musicians. She also wrote a manual designed to help heath care workers introduce proper breastfeeding and complementary feeding techniques to new mothers and wrote a report on GSCP’s HIV Stigma Reduction Campaign. INTERNSHIP WITH ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY Stella Mathias interned with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency inTanzania (ADRA TANZANIA). Stella participated in their peer educators seminar where she had an opportunity to interview female students for a film project. She helped with efforts to improve the ”Maisha Bomba” (Wonderful Life) radio program and worked to improve a script for ADRA's training video on HIV/AIDS. Stella also helped another faith–based organization (Compassion International) implement youth game competitions, where she had was able to interact with students from different regions of the country.
RADIO AND TV EDITING WITH VOA Muhammad Syahril "Il" Sangaji spent three months at the Voice of America (VOA) Indonesian Service. He worked primarily on radio programs, translating international news into Bahasa Indonesia, reading and editing them. Il also got to interview many interesting people, including an Indonesian political analyst on Jakarta's gubernatorial election, a national artist, and an Olympic 1996 Badminton champion, Rexy Mainaky who is now serving Malaysian Badminton coach. When he wasn’t working on radio, he edited the weekly television program "Dunia Kita" which is aired weekly on the Indonesian National TV Station, Metro TV.
INTERNSHIP WITH THE COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CONSORTIUM Lenora Kukome worked with the Communication for Social Change Consortium (CFSC) based in New Jersey. The CFSC is an international nonprofit that aims to build the capacity of poor and marginalized people to use communication to improve their own lives. Lenora had the opportunity to work with Denise Grey-Felder, head of the CFSC and with Susan Mach, editor of MAZI, the Consortium's magazine. Lenora’s primary task was to write a feature story on the Nashville-based NGO, MICTAN or the Metropolitan Interdenominational Church Technical Assistant Network. MICTAN uses the church as a venue to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS amongst African-Americans. Lenora enoyed talking with the program director and with pastors who were involved in MICTAN's program. UNDERSTANDING HEALTH COMM PROGRAMMING AT SOUTH AFRICA'S BUSH RADIO Akibu Hassan interned at Bush Radio in Cape Town, South Africa. Considered the mother of community radio in South Africa, Akibu was able to experience firsthand the ins and outs of radio production. He primarily worked on a producing a documentary about Bush Radio’s health communications programs, and also conducted some interviews and produced a PSA. Akibu was also able to visit six other community radio stations in the area as well as the Media Training Center for Health, which produces health communication materials for television and radio. SUMMER INTERNSHIP WITH ASHOKA: INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC Lourdes Caballero had a summer internship with Ashoka in Arlington, VA. Ashoka searches for and invests in changemakers who have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society. She was assigned to the University Network for Social Entrepreneurship where her main task was to create a global directory containing professors who taught social entrepreneurship courses. She also drafted a proposal to revise the content of the website and redesigned marketing materials for our unit. According to Lourdes, the best part of her internship was the “brown bag” lunches in which interns had the opportunity to speak with interesting changemakers. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN PERU Lauren Brown, a 2nd year CommDever, interned at Pathfinder International's Peru office, based in Lima during the summer of 2007. While in Peru, Lauren assisted with the evaluation of the "Improving the Health of Peruvians in 7 Regions" Initiative, which focused on building skills of government officials and health care personnel in rural areas of the country that are often overlooked by the federal government. The project also worked with community members to promote healthy environments in schools, homes and other public places. Lauren travelled to these areas to interview government officials and health care workers about the capacity building they had received from Pathfinder over the last few years. She also interviewed community members to determine their opinions of local and regional governments' attempts to promote health, how they perceived the service at the health centers, and how they personally defined health and well-being for themselves, their families and their communities. Pathfinder International provides women, men, and adolescents throughout the developing world with access to quality family planning and reproductive health information and services. Pathfinder works to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, to provide care to women suffering from the complications of unsafe abortion, and to advocate for sound reproductive health policies in the U.S. and abroad. INTERNSHIPS: CLASS OF 2005 VIRTUAL INTERNSHIP FOR JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Susan Roe '05 did a "virtual" internship (or more commonly known as an off-site internship) for JHU/CCP during August, 2004. During the time she was engaged on research work around two key assignments. The first was to develop a Concept Paper for a grant proposal related to funding community-based organizations on HIV prevention activities for high-risk populations in seven provinces in Indonesia. The second and more substantial assignment was to review best practices and lessons learned from other international programs related to access of services (either clinical or community-based) for safe motherhood in conflict-affected areas. The research work included revisiting the Nepal context in terms of conflict analysis and on-going activities related to entertainment education radio programs and community mobilization strategies and proposing shifts in activities related to application of a conflict-sensitive approach. Susan presented in her final report several recommendations for future JHU activities related to second-phase work falling under the umbrella of the Support to Nepal's National Safe Motherhood Program (funded by the UK's Department of National Development-DFID). |
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TOURISM FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN BARBADOS Tourism has become a 'bread and butter' issue in many of the Carribbean islands, said Carol, observing that as agriculture has declined, tourism has become the prime source of GDP in many of the islands. Tourism development is therefore viewed as the key to sustainability in the region.Among the issues discussed at the conference were: environmental challenges faced by the tourism industry; technology and tourism; the impacts of globalization, cultural intrusion and penetration; and HIV-AIDS among sex workers. The media?s role in promoting tourism and sustainability was also discussed. The conference called for a regional integration among territories in the Caribbean region to aid in the development of tourism. Apart from helping a two-member Counterpart International team with facilitating the conference, Carol also assisted with post-conference Public Relations. This involved writing and giving out press releases.
Sue Springer of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (left) presents Derrice Deane of the Voice of America with the CMEx V Excellence in Journalism award |
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