Meet the amazing Cornelius Sanford, who participated in a human rights law internship in Cape Town with the VACorps program in 2021. Cornelius is an alumnus of the Peace Corps and is the recipient of The Rangel Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University. The prestigious fellowship will [...]
Meet the incredible Emma Vargo, who participated in the VACorps Program in 2019. Emma is currently studying Allied Health with a concentration in medical sciences at the University of Tampa and did her medical internship at a home for chronically ill children. Emma shares some highlights of her experiences in South Africa and Mozambique [...]
Meet the amazing Lachlan O'Neill, who participated in the VACorps program in 2019. Lachlan has undergraduate degrees in Law & Government & International Relations from Griffith University in Australia. He participated in a human rights law internship in Cape Town. In this alumni interview, Lachlan shares some of the highlights from his memorable internship [...]
Meet the amazing Rebecca Longman, who participated in the VACorps program in 2019. Rebecca studies Biopsychology, Cognition, Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, and participated in an internship at a community health clinic in Cape Town. In this alumni interview, Rebecca shares some of the highlights from her internship experience in South Africa. [...]
Many incredible people have passed through the VACorps internship program since we first started hosting interns in 2006. “Oh the places you’ll go” is a series where our alumni share updates about their careers and life accomplishments. In this latest post, the remarkable Rebecca Gibian (Journalism Internship, 2015), checks in from Brooklyn, New York, [...]
Many incredible people have passed through the VACorps internship program since we first started hosting interns in 2006. “Oh the places you’ll go” is a series where our alumni share updates about their careers and life accomplishments. In this latest post, Brittany McHale (Social work internship in South Africa, 2011), checks in from New [...]
Many incredible people have passed through the VACorps internship program since we first started hosting interns in 2006. “Oh the places you’ll go” is a series where our alumni share updates about their careers and life accomplishments. In this latest post, Lauren Blodgett (Refugee and Human Rights Internship, 2013), checks in from New York City, where she [...]
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 [...]
Many incredible people have passed through the VACorps internship program since we first started hosting interns in 2006. “Oh the places you’ll go” is a series where our alumni share updates about their careers and life accomplishments. In this latest post, Abdullah Khurram (’10) checks in from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he is currently [...]
Madhavi participated in a Human Rights & Public Health internship in Cape Town, in 2017. "The main reason I chose to intern in Cape Town is that I wanted to learn about how health systems functioned in South Africa and the interventions that public health organizations develop to improve the quality of the various health services. [...]
