Just because you’re in your last few years of school doesn’t mean that you have to be done with educational development. Even if you haven’t studied education for a second, you must have picked up something with 15-16 years in the educational system. At the very least you’ve lived in a thriving society, and you understand how education, health, civil society and economic development are the keys to a better life. Maybe you take these things for granted, but once you see what the non-profit Academy for Educational Development is doing, you’ll get a better understanding for how innovative solutions can help solve critical social and economic problems. AED has programs that focus on 7 specific areas – Education, Enterprise & Economic Development, Environment & Energy, Health, HIV/AIDS, Leadership & Democracy, and Youth – and they also take 7 different approaches – Behavior Changes, Gender, Partnerships, Research & Evaluation, Social Marketing, Technology Applications, and Training. It may sound like they have their hands full, and they do. AED is running “more than 250 programs serving people in all 50 U.S. states and more than 150 countries.”
Getting a feel for what exactly the Academy for Educational Development does is a little tough. It’s not that they don’t eloquently describe themselves, but it’s that they do so much. The best way to get a deeper feel for what the organization works on every day is to read their What We Do page and their Projects page. Like what you see? Why not consider interning at AED.
The Academy for Educational Development has a well developed internship program that includes both paid and unpaid internships in Washington, DC. Right now they have 7 internships posted. There are opportunities in their Medical Residency Program, Center for Enterprise & Capacity Development, Center for Youth Development, Fulbright Awards Program, Summer Institutes & Journalism Program, International Journalism Program, and KAUST Program. Each of these internships has a lengthy description that you can find in AED’s internship listings, so give those a look and see if these internships are something that you might want to apply for. If they are, you can do that by sending a cover letter and resume to employ@smtp.aed.org with the position # (it’s in the internship posting) somewhere in the e-mail.
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The Academy for Educational Development is doing great work I am happy to note that you are going to make the horn of Africa an active region with your programs
Keep up the good work