Paidi, a student at Cornell University, interned at an NGO called Future Females. Paidi had this to say about her experience in South Africa with Future Females and VACorps:
| 1. Why did you choose Cape Town as the place to intern abroad? I haven’t been to Africa before. South Africa is the most developed country in Africa, and Cape Town is the most safe place in South Africa.2. Why did you decide to do an internship? Travel is not a perfect way to know a city, staying at a place for while and get in touch with locals is a better way to experience a city, so I chose to do an intern here. 3. What did you love most about interning in CT? 4. What did you learn about yourself during your time in CT? 5. Specific highlights at your site you will never forget? 6. What did you love most about living here? What will you miss most? 7. How long did you stay for- how long would you advise for people to come and do you have any tips as to how they can prepare themselves for coming? 8. How were the VACorps staff and the weekly activities? 9. What aspects of the VACorps program are you most grateful for? |
Meet past participants:
Sophia (Rocca) Caputo-New York, USA (2019)
Sophia joined the VACorps Program in January 2019 and participated in an Entrepreneurship Internship. "Moving to South Africa for 3 months was not something I deliberately set out to do; last summer when I started looking into [...]
Paidi Shi – Chengdu, China (2018)
Paidi, a student at Cornell University, interned at an NGO called Future Females. Paidi had this to say about her experience in South Africa with Future Females and VACorps: 1. Why did you choose Cape [...]
Tobias Woxholtt – Copenhagen, Denmark
In 2012 I travelled around the world reaching several different fascinating destinations and people. I came to South Africa, but never reached Cape Town. I found this frustrating because on my adventures I met so [...]
