VACorps Testimonials
What is it like to be a participant of VACorps?
Madison joined the VACorps Program in January 2019 and participated in a Disaster and Risk Management Internship in January 2019. "My time in Cape Town [...]
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 [...]
Laura joined the VACorps Program in January 2019 and participated in a nursing internship. "I chose Cape Town because it was a place I wanted [...]
Emily joined the VACorps Program in January 2019 and participated in an Education Internship. She had this to say about her experience: "Living in Cape [...]
Cinthya joined the VACorps Program in 2019 and participated in an International Trade Law Internship. "I have been in Cape Town for almost 2 months [...]
Anya joined the VACorps Program in 2019 and participated in a Social Work and Human Rights Internship. "I originally was not planning on coming to [...]
Matthew participated in a Film and Media Internship as part of his GAP year. He had this to say about his experience: "Along with my [...]
Sydney, a student at Oregon State University, participated in a Public Health and Education Internship in January 2019. " Cape Town stood out to me when I [...]
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 [...]
Savannah participated in a medical internship in Cape Town with VACorps in 2018. "I had a couple of friends back home who had previously participated [...]
Jergus participated in a human rights law internship in Cape Town with VACorps in 2018. "After successfully graduating from the LLM programme at the University [...]
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 [...]
Randee participated in a psychology internship in Cape Town with VACorps in 2018. " I chose to come to Cape Town because I had heard [...]
Jenna participated in a health promotion internship in Cape Town with VACorps in 2018. "My time in Cape Town has been absolutely amazing, and I [...]
Yolancee participated in a medical internship in Cape Town with VACorps during the summer of 2018. " I spent 2.5 months in Cape Town and [...]
Corrie participated in the VACorps Cape Town human rights internship program in 2018. "I chose to come to Cape Town because it's in a country that's [...]
Tom, pictured at center, participated in an environmental consulting internship with VACorps in 2018. "Interning in Cape Town has been one of the most interesting [...]
Logan was a participant of the July 2018 Human Rights Internship Program. "I wanted to intern abroad because it was a good way to get [...]
I chose to intern abroad in Cape Town because I was looking to experience living abroad in a place completely unique from what I was [...]
Noah joined the VACorps program in June 2018 and participated in a Human Rights internship. "I chose to come to Cape Town because it was [...]
Shelby joined the VACorps program in May 2018 and participated in a Physical Therapy Placement. "I chose Cape Town as a place to [...]
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