Two of the World Con­cern interns will work closely with staff in Kenya, includ­ing coun­try direc­tor Hes­bone Kange, who grew up in the country.

Intern­ships are noto­ri­ous for being bor­ing. Get cof­fee, make copies. But at World Con­cern, our four new interns are going to have an adven­ture. They might be get­ting cof­fee, but it would be in a tin cup inside of a Masai tribal hut in Kenya.

The four World Con­cern sum­mer com­mu­ni­ca­tions interns arrived today. They’ve been get­ting the low­down on what we do and why we do it. One week from now, they’ll be on their way to Kenya, Bolivia or Bangladesh.

The idea behind the intern­ship is to broaden the scope of who knows about World Con­cern and what we do. We also want new audi­ences to see why it is so impor­tant to reach out to these remote com­mu­ni­ties. They’ll learn about the lives of peo­ple who might work an 11-hour day of hard labor, all for a cou­ple of dol­lars. They may meet chil­dren at risk of being forced into pros­ti­tu­tion. They’ll prob­a­bly meet peo­ple liv­ing with AIDS — and the friends and fam­ily mem­bers who are will­ing to work with us and raise aware­ness, or even take in chil­dren who have lost their par­ents because of the virus.

Our interns will be writ­ing blog entries about what they see — and it will be from their per­spec­tive as a young West­erner who is part of the social net­work­ing gen­er­a­tion. They’ll also take pho­tos to help show the real­ity. We’ve also planned out how they will use their expe­ri­ences to write for local news­pa­pers, aim­ing to each get pub­lished in a main­stream media out­let dur­ing their time abroad.

The inter­net con­nec­tions will be sketchy, but work­able, I am sure. I’ve trav­eled to eight coun­tries so far with World Con­cern and always found an inter­net con­nec­tion, at least every cou­ple of days. In the next week, I’ll intro­duce you to the crew — and we’ll all enjoy see­ing things from their per­spec­tive this summer.

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