A
student-led effort
acrossto facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue,
awareness, and action on international development.
THE Q FUND- Zambia
The Q Fund mission is to collaborate with communities in turmoil and build
school-centered, self-sustaining environments that nurture, educate and empower
vulnerable children by honoring diversity, cultivating creativity, and fostering respect
for the earth.
The Q Fund school that will host CUPID interns this summer is the Chimoza Community
School in Ndola, Zambia (in the northern Copperbelt region). The school began in 2003
with 47 students in a single room, and has grown to provide quality education for over
380 students from grades one to eight. Many of the students at Chimoza are orphans, and
all of them are attending the school because they cannot afford the expenses required to
attend the local government school. There are currently two projects in progress at
Chimoza: adding a high school, and building a medical center for the community. CUPID
interns will be assisting with these projects (or any others that may arise!), and will
work closely with Chimoza teachers and community members.
http://www.qfund.org/
GLOBAL POTENTIAL- Dominican Republic and Brooklyn, NY
Global Potential empowers low-income, minority Brooklyn youth to create positive change
in their lives and communities. We give them an unprecedented opportunity to go through a
training program at their high school and gain specific vocational skills, receive
mentoring and leadership training, and to then travel to and volunteer in a developing
country. The youth will bring their new knowledge and confidence into the rural village
in the Dominican Republic, and then will return to their own communities and use social
entrepreneurship models to become catalysts for local social change. Global Potential has
3 primary goals: to provide (1) a formative experience for participating youth, (2) a
concrete benefit to the developing world community they work with, and (3) a boon to
their home communities in Brooklyn. The lasting purpose of our program, beyond equipping
youth with life skills, job readiness, and global awareness, is to enable them to
interact across cultures, and to develop social entrepreneurship solutions to the
community needs that they will have learned to identify with the support of our partners
Ashoka Youth Venture and Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral (IDDI). The CUPID
Community Initiatives team will help facilitate this program by supporting the youth in
their program, both locally and internationally, and by working directly with IDDI in the
DR to provide technical support for the community project. The CUPID interns will also
help with curriculum, youth development, evaluation, and needs and impact assessments.
http://www.global-potential.org/
RETO JUVENIL INTERNACIONAL- Costa Rica
CUPID has partnered with the Reto Juvenil Internacional and the Women's Association of
Jazmines A in Costa Rica for 2 years. Jazmines A is a rural community located near the
border with Nicaragua. In the past, CUPID interns have gone to Jazmines A during the
summer to help the Women's Association with capacity building initiatives. During the
summer of 2007, 3 CUPID interns helped formalize the organization's charter and gave
computer literacy, domestic violence awareness, and nutrition classes.
For information about the projects we were involved in last summer, see below. If you have any questions, please contact CUPID's Community Initiatives Chair, Ellen Olsen (cupidinternship@gmail.com ).
To learn more or to get involved, contact CUPID's Community Initiatives Chair, Ellen Olsen (cupidinternship@gmail.com).
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