About the journey grant
The Joseph H. Melrose International Internship Travel Grant funds journey and associated bills for college kids all for volunteering with a global group or NGO. The grant is known as for the late Ambassador Joseph H. Melrose, Jr. (Class of 1966) who spent 33 years with the Foreign Service earlier than returning to Ursinus as Ambassador in Residence from 2002-2014. The Hub for Civic and Global Leadership seeks to proceed his legacy by increasing alternatives for college kids to realize sensible expertise working domestically, nationally and globally, encouraging them to grow to be socially accountable residents and international leaders.
Recipients of the journey grant will obtain funding to work alongside professionals in a corporation devoted to constructing long-term, sustainable options in communities in hard-hit areas across the globe. The internship should be in a growing nation for at least 4 weeks.
What is anticipated of an intern?
- Interns might be concerned in plenty of completely different areas, together with neighborhood well being initiatives, schooling, conservation, or communications and media outreach.
- Interns could also be anticipated to tackle quite a lot of duty; they need to be good at problem-solving and cozy determining the way to do issues on their very own.
- Interns ought to be versatile and work properly beneath strain.
- Interns ought to have robust communication abilities and have the ability to relate properly to many several types of individuals.
- Interns ought to be culturally delicate and have an curiosity in journey.
Where will the internship be?
- Eligible internships should be with a non-governmental group, governmental or worldwide establishment positioned in a growing nation.
- Applicants should make their very own preparations to work with the group or establishment.
- Interns ought to be ready to dwell in an atmosphere that lacks the sort of facilities and creature comforts discovered within the United States.
What prices might be coated?
- The worldwide internship journey grant will cowl the prices of journey to and from the internship.
- Depending on funds out there, the grant could cowl the prices of native transportation, lodging and meals in the course of the size of the internship.
Who could apply?
- Students with any main could apply.
- Applicants should be present Ursinus college students or lately graduated seniors.
Examples
- Susy Zelaya Rivera ’19 interned with Project HOPE within the Dominican Republic, the place she labored on an initiative to cut back excessive neonatal mortality charges
- Julia Rakowski ’23 volunteered with a corporation in Honduras that focuses on coral reef restoration, invasive species elimination, and neighborhood outreach
- Molly Blume ’23 volunteered with a corporation in Dharamshala, India that teaches English and pc abilities to low-income ladies
- Katy Dietrich ’25 traveled to Sri Lanka to study elephant conservation; she helped feed, clear grazing paths and enclosures, oversee bathing, and helped in veterinarian work for elephants