It’s hard for me to imagine growing up without parents. The closest that I ever came to being orphaned was when my mom lost me in Toys ‘R Us for no more than ten minutes. I was about six years old, and when I realized that I couldn’t find my mother, I lost all interest in the thousands of toys surrounding me and frantically ran from aisle to aisle looking for her. It’s amazing how terrifying it can be for a young child to be separated from his or her parents for a short time, which makes it hard to fathom the emotional distress that orphans must go through. Jim Luce could see this distress in the eyes of one boy in an Indonesian orphanage, so he adopted him. His adoption experience gave him the idea to start a surrogate foster care system in developing nations based on the concept of small homes with only four children and a house parent at each dwelling. He wanted to raise orphaned children from toddlers to adulthood the way he was raising his adopted son, so he did it and named his non-profit organization Orphans International. Jim Luce describes the process in a wonderful essay that he wrote for the New York Times.
Jim Luce’s essay should tell you everything that you need to know about why Orphans International exists, and the links that we’ve provided below will tell you the rest of the story. We’re going to get right to the internships. Orphans International offers internships both in the US and abroad. They have an Internships page on their website, but all of their actual Internship postings are on Idealist. Orphans International is currently looking for three Fall interns in New York City – an Administrative Intern Assistant to the Founder, an Administrative Intern Assistant to the Executive Director, and a Fundraising Event Planning Intern. If you’re looking to learn from people at the helm of a non-profit, the administrative internships offer a fantastic opportunity; however, administrative work isn’t for everyone. The Fundraising Event Planning Internship looks especially attractive, because it’s atypical of the types of internships that non-profits usually offer. The intern that they hire will be working on planning fashion parties such as an Anime/Manga party and a t-shirt and sneaker fundraiser. Sound cool? Send a cover letter and resume to linda@oiww.org to apply for any of these internships. If you want to learn more about these internships, you should read Orphans International America’s Interns’ Blog and Orphans International Tanzania’s Interns’ Blog.
Links to Help You Begin Your Research
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