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Spend a month interning in Thailand

Looking for a short internship abroad? My good friends Peter and Celina are academics who also indulge in humanitarian aid. They run the Burmese Refugee Project, or BRP, in Thailand. I couldn’t imagine better people to work with.

Here’s their announcement:

We are looking for an intern to co-develop a small mental health and family planning peer education program among young women at the BRP. We think this is going to be a great project for the intern as well as the BRP community. Help us spread the word!

The intern will set up the program with the help of the BRP social workers, and teach basic lessons to 2 peer educators. These 2 peer educators would then work with others in the BRP community. We are especially eager to work with someone who is:

  1. Conversant in Thai or Shan
  2. Familiar with basic social/ qualitative work tenets (such as respect for confidentiality, social desirability bias, etc.)
  3. Is familiar or willing to learn about refugee health, especially regarding reproductive health, family planning, and mental health, and
  4. Is familiar with or willing to learn about very basic survey research methods

We will provide substantive support and training along the way.

We can provide an honorarium of $2,000, or approximately 64,000 Thai baht, depending on the current currency exchange rate. The intern will work in northwest Thailand for 4 weeks, either consecutively or in two periods of 2 weeks each. While we would prefer to work with a local refugee or Thai national, we would be willing to work with folks from the Global North, and to help applicants with grant proposals for extra travel funds if necessary.

Interested candidates should email Celina and Peter directly. I think requirement number 1 is optional.

Correction: Sadly, the language requirement is a requirement.

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