“An internship with VACorps is one of those experiences that you have to live to fully understand its value. The written word doesn”t do justice to my experience as an intern in Cape Town. To move across the world, to work in an unfamiliar business environment, and to live with students from all around the globe forced me to erase any boundaries that I had limited myself to in the past. Before I came to Cape Town to work as an intern at Obzside, I pictured myself working as a business woman in the US. However, this internship has helped me see that there is an entire world out there and that the US is just a tiny part of it. This has been a liberating journey for me, and the amount of personal growth and knowledge I have acquired by living and working in a foreign environment is immeasurable.”
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, Rob Weidner...
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Before coming to Cape Town I was nervous, afraid, and had no idea what I was getting myself into. After being in Cape Town for not even two days all of those feelings disappeared and I knew the rest of my time here was...
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Kira joined the VACorps program in September 2023 as part of her Gap year, and participated in a marketing internship at a surf school.
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