Brazil, Congo, Niger, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa : Internships in alternative medias

Internship Opportunity

In collaboration with:

Morocco : Réseau Marocain pour l’Environnement et le Développement Durable
Senegal : L’Association nationale pour l’alphabétisation et la formation des adultes (ANAFA)
Congo : Solidarité entre Nous (SEN)
South Africa : Research and Education in Development, Khanya College, The Bathlabine Rural Development Trust.
Niger : Groupe Alternative
Brazil : Escola de Formação 8 de mayo

Objectives:

The promotion of trade between developing and Quebec youth committed ilieux whole world;
The introduction to socio-political contexts of home and abroad;
Creating an effective networking between grassroots organization in the same country, between Alternativs and its partners, between north and south;
Expanding access to the Internet and outilsde dissemination of new media for activists with few resources for training, equipment, etc..;
The mobilization and sensitization to the context of globalization for young Quebecers.

In Quebec:

Basic training on international development, the country of assignment, the overseas partners and the sector of activities;

Internship at a newspaper, an alternative weekly, magazine or radio station or television, private or community, in Quebec, covering the current issues in the South.

Overseas:

To assist in research, writing articles and promotional materials and production of music for radio or local TV;

To contribute to staff training and improving overall communications of the host organism;

To prepare a series of articles and alternative radio or audiovisual recordings to be transmitted and published / broadcast in the Canadian news media;

To maintain an interactive Web site to stay by which future journalists communicate with the public and potential employers in Canada.

Training Location: Brazil, Congo, Niger, Morocco et Senegal, South Africa

Duration: about 5 months

1 month of pre-departure training: January 13th 2003 to January 10th janvier 2003
17 weeks overseas : January 10th 2003 to July 4th 2003

Number of trainees: 8

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