Pre-Roatán The first two weeks of my internship were in Washington D.C, where an IEDP cohort-mate and I were introduced to the English program we were going to be working with and prepared for the field work. I not only learned more about Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI), but also observed how this specific nonprofit organization functions. I was able to sit in on other meetings … Continue reading Roatán Adventures
Words will fall short for me to reflect on my incredible internship experience at UNESCO IICBA. During my final week my office threw me a farewell that was one of a kind. The entire office gathered in the common area for a little farewell ceremony for another colleague and I, and also a short birthday celebration for two other colleagues. Those I worked with said … Continue reading Reflecting on an Experience of a Lifetime
Upon wrapping up the Play & Resilience project by mid-July, I was thrilled to be involved in some miscellaneous tasks at the office – writing concept notes, bringing together some promotional material for IICBA’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and doing some editing work. I put together a short video for the Play & Resilience dissemination workshop. Check it out here – My next task for … Continue reading School Feeding Cluster Strategy- Designing Applicable and Sustainable Teachers Guides
I am in New York and I am interning at the UNICEF headquarters. This internship is a part of my master’s in International Education Development at the University of Pennsylvania and this blog is one of the assignments for the ‘internship’ semester that I am almost about to wrap up. Yes, I spent a summer without the loo or the mangoes (which some of my … Continue reading The New York Summer
Greetings from Bangkok! Three months have passed already, and my internship will end in a few days. This is going to be the last blog post about my summer internship. In this blog, I would like to give the final updates of my internship and share what I have gained from this experience. For the past few weeks, I am finishing up several tasks that … Continue reading Final weeks in Bangkok
As an intern at UNESCO IICBA my primary task has quickly become developing the Play & Resilience toolkit. Play & Resilience is China-Africa project targeting healthy and holistic Early Childhood Development in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. On my first day itself my supervisor Binyam shared the initial draft developed by a consultant that I had to expand into a toolkit. IEDP Prosem was a … Continue reading Play & Resilience, Plot Twists, and a Birthday Bash!
This blog post is slightly overdue but I needed the time and the distance to be truly reflective. The last few weeks in Kingston were filled with an abundance of activity such as report generations, handover meetings- a general flurry of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s if you will. The fact that it spanned over two weeks was because July and August are … Continue reading Jamaica Journal- how the journey ends
Greetings from Bangkok! It’s hard to believe that 9 weeks have already passed since my internship started. At the same time, I do feel that I’ve got used to life in Bangkok and I have a better understanding of where to eat good food and how to enjoy my spare time. I have 3 more weeks to go but my actual work days are much … Continue reading Sawadikap! Internship updates
I don’t know any other way to write about this than to be transparent. I am writing this from Philadelphia, not New Delhi. I expressed my discontent for enduring weeks without work or pleasantries to my supervisor at Sesame Workshop India. I told her I felt neither needed nor wanted – she responded by telling me it was my fault because I was not motivated. … Continue reading Sesame Street: Road Closure
At the halfway mark and there’s so much to say but also not much to say at all. Sesame Workshop has given us basically no work. Our on-going petitions for work have been met with empty promises and trite excuses since really before we even arrived to the office. It all finally made sense a few days ago. The education/research/content teams had been dissolved and … Continue reading A Whole New World
The International Educational Development Program 