Hello Everyone!  I thought I would expand a little bit more on my internship! 

I am loving my internship so far.  I get to work with so many great people at the office from all over the world, from Canada, Germany, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia.  The back office that I work in with other staff and interns, we have lots of good conversations, connections and work together on lots of different projects. 

So far, I have been working on different little projects that come up as the days go on.  On Monday, I got to work with two other interns on two brochures, one about the organization, and the other about the End Forced Sterilization Campaign (endforcedsterilisation.wordpress.com).  In Namibia, there have been a number of cases where women who are living with HIV have been sterilized during pregnancy with out their consent despite the fact that there a number of other ways to prevent transmission from mother to child. Today I also worked on a letter to try to get more organizations to support the campaign.  

I have also been working on doing some other small projects here and there to support their programming. I am excited for tomorrow to observe the literacy classes.  I will be also working on the Youth Economic Empowerment Project, which is to help youth in Katutura to have access to training and education to be able to start their own businesses and to find employment in order to be more economically stable.  I will be working on this program as well to help support it. 

Lots of learning going on about the policies in Namibia, and the advocacy work being done to address these large issues. It is fun to see an organization that does so much advocacy as well as working directly with the community in a number of regions in Namibia.  

Please check out the Website if you are interested. http://www.namwhn.org/

I work at my organization three days per week from 8 to 5.  It is nice because I just have to walk up the street from my house to get there for about 5 minutes.  Lunch breaks in Namibia are from 1 to 2, so I get a chance to get out of the office and walk a little bit. 

Thanks for reading,

Angela 

Ps. Please comment or ask questions on my blog if you would like to know about something while I am here (or email).