[Mitai-announce] Apply Now: Funded Summer Opportunity in Dominican Republic!

[Elizabeth Bast]

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER OPPORTUNITY FOR MIT STUDENTS!
Deadline for applications is April 5!


WHAT:  Youth and Environmental Justice Project

You'd be working to build the capacity of a youth environmental justice 
program and working to build an environmental justice curriculum for 
the school.

WHERE: La Puya, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

La Puya is a vibrant, very low income community in Santo Domingo, 
Dominican Republic.

WHO: You! Fluent or very proficient Spanish speakers needed, and people 
with youth development or international development interests preferred.

WHEN: 5 or 10 weeks this summer

HOW:  Send an application to the Public Service Center by Monday, April 
5th.  Project proposal and recommendation letter needed.  Those who 
apply have an excellent chance of getting funded (approximately $4K for 
10 weeks and $2.2K for 5 weeks).

Check out the application website at 
http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/fellowships/summer/focus/current.shtml . The 
project is listed under Centro Educativo Profesor Juan Bosch de la Puya 
(the local school).  More info on the applications at 
http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/fellowships/summer .

You can also look at the website of the De Barrio a Playa project that 
James Alexander, Jean Walsh and I worked on last summer at 
http://web.mit.edu/ideas/www/dbp/dbp.html with the same group of kids 
in the same community. 

Please contact James or me with any questions about the application.  
This is a great opportunity to manage a real international development 
and community development project in a beautiful Caribbean country!

Buena Suerte!

Elizabeth Bast (ebast at mit.edu) 415-377-2212
James Alexander (jalex at mit.edu) 617-629-5880

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