Region, city or village: Quito, Ecuador
Résumé of internship objectives:
- Train the young participants and employees of the ACJ Quito office to the use of communication tools.
- Support a concrete community project aiming to the empowerment of a collectivity, in particular as regards to education, information and communication;
- Share Alternatives’ knowledge and best practice on communications strategies
- Bring a technical assistance to improve the working communication tools of ACJ Ecuador;
- Acquire practical knowledge in communications for development
- Undertake public awareness activities to sensitize Quebecois to issues related to ecuadorian sustainable development.
Résumé of field activities:
- Participate and organize planning meetings with the youth organisations working with ACJ Ecuador;
- Research on the following themes preparing the production of short documentaries: youth and children rights, youth citizen participation, development of a peace culture;
- In collaboration with young Ecuadorian participants, scenarize short documentairies and plan their production;
- Prepare workshops in video editing and produce training material
- Facilitate video production workshops.
- Film and edit in collaboration young Ecuadorian participants, 3 short documentaries on the topics previously mentiooned.
- Animer des ateliers de formation en production audiovisuelle;
Number of project participants : 6 interns and 1 accompanier
Overseas placement : From 14 June to 13 August 2010 (60 days)
Pre-departure training : From 9 November 2009 to 13 June 2010
Eligibility requirements for participating interns
- Be at least 18 by the beginning of the overseas placement and no more than 35 by the application deadline
- Have a permanent address in Quebec for at least over the past year
- Have Canadian citizenship status or permanent residency status
- Show proof of interest for international development issues and North-South dynamics
- Demonstrate interpersonal capacities appropriate for living and working in a multicultural context
- Demonstrate the interpersonal capacities appropriate for living and working in a multicultural context
- Be ready to participate in all steps of the internship (fund raising, pre-departure training, overseas placement, return activities)
- Be in good health (a medical certificate will be required if you are accepted into the program)
- Not have already participated in a Québec sans frontières internship program and not have already participated in an overseas internship in a "southern" country for more than six weeks
- Have a good knowledge of French
Other :
- Have a basic knowledge of Spanish
- Have a proven interest in alternative communications
Eligibility criteria for the accompanier :
- Be at least 21 years of age at the beginning of the overseas placement
- Have permanent residency in Quebec for at least the past year
- Have Canadian citizenship status or permanent residency status
- Have a secondary V diploma
- Have a proven interest in international development issues and North-South dynamics
- Demonstrate a capacity for coordinating an intern group
- Demonstrate interpersonal capacities appropriate for living and working in a multicultural context
- Be in good health (if your candidacy is retained, a medical certificate will be required)
- Be ready to participate in all steps of the internship (fund raising, pre-departure training, overseas placement, return activities)
- Have a good knowledge of Spanish
- Have a good knowledge of French
Other:
- Have already undertaken a cooperation internship in the internship country or region
- Demonstrate an interest for communications and alternative media
