by Ashley Blake, OSU, interned at ICAS/Mesoamerica in Costa Rica in 2006
Dream, pursue, achieve.In school we’re given lots of buzz words to get us to “reach for the stars” and “fulfill our dreams.” Inspiring? Yes. Overwhelming? That too. Possibly a bit corny? Maybe…or maybe not.
Let me tell you a little bit about my story. After obtaining my Associates degree (basically your Baccore) in Bend, I entered OSU as a Media Communications major, a Music major and a Spanish minor. Lots of work for a new university student! After a tough first year, I realized that piano…
Take a five minute trip to India and watch the following video about the healthcare programs that CFHI offers there, including an interview with Alyssa Boesch, an IE3 public health intern on the Himalayan Rotation this past spring term. Learn more about how to do a ten week medical rotation as a pre-med or pre-nursing student by visiting the IE3 position descripton. IE3 and CFHI also offer medically focused internships in Bolivia , Ecuador (Rural and Urban), Mexico, and South Africa.
At the end of May the National NAFSA (Association of International Educators) conference was held in Washington D.C. and IE3 was there! As a presenter, our Africa director, Christopher Bennett, spoke on a panel focused on” Building and Sustaining a Quality International Internship Program.” An additional poster session focused on orientation and preparing students for international internships. We’re proud to be contributing to the body of knowledge at a national (and international) level!
By Jessica Fowler, OSU student who interned at CFHI La Paz, Bolivia during Winter term 2008
Oh how we love working Thursdays with Borda! Today was no exception. The city of El Alto was celebrating some sort of independence holiday so the clinic was absolutely dead. By that I mean there were only 30 people in the waiting room as opposed to 200. There was however a cesearan section planned, so Linh and I scrubbed up and headed to the surgery unit with Dr. Borda. Since he is in charge of getting the surgery underway with the local anesthesia, he…
IE3 Global Internships has offered internship to university students at Students Helping Street Kids International (SHSKI) for over 10 years. For more information, see the position description
Priscilla Almeida Dantas: invited by University of Oregon piano professor Dr. Dossin to perform recitals in several Oregon cities; lives in poverty in Brazil, receives an academic scholarship partially funded by several Eugene/Springfield schools, and plans on being an exchange student at Churchill High School and a U of O piano major.
Fifteen-year-old Priscilla Dantas is an amazing young girl who, in spite of the poverty in which she lives…