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Build Your Own Internship: Location of Your Choice
Not seeing an internship for you below? If you have a very specific internship placement in mind or are looking through our program list and not seeing your location of choice, you still have options! You can “Build Your Own Internship,” where you research and secure your own internship while working with the GEO office to receive relevant academic credit. Students are responsible for finding this internship, housing, and travel arrangements independently, which is what differs from the existing internship placement programs that GEO offers. All students will be charged in-state tuition for this program and receive a guaranteed $250-$1000 scholarship.
Build Your Own Internship
Examples of Internship Placements
Atenas, Costa Rica with World Endeavors
Social Services and Community Development Internship:
Join the team at a dynamic non-profit organization that provides services to vulnerable women and children, and low-income men and women over 60. The organization strives to improve the quality of life of those living in need by providing food, education and guidance, and promoting the social well-being of the community and its most marginalized members. This organization provides nutrition, psychological support to youth, job training for women, physical and spiritual development for youth, and academic assistance to university and high school students.
Bangkok, Thailand with World Endeavors
Social Work Internship:
Interns work with nonprofit or government organizations, aiding individual clients, and assisting with community outreach initiatives and public health and safety programs.
NGO Internship Fighting Human Trafficking:
Join an NGO that promotes human and children's rights, and also serves as the center for missing people due to human trafficking. Interns assist with administrative tasks, help with various children's campaigns, conduct research and compile data.
Buenos Aires with Road2Argentina
Social Inclusion Internship with Detrás de Todo:
Detrás de Todo works in Villa 31, one of the biggest slums in the city of Buenos Aires, to promote the social inclusion of disadvantaged children, adolescents, adults and elderly. They organize educational projects, cultural workshops, recreational and sports activities and work ventures.
Education and Health Internship with an NGO:
Pilares is an NGO that works with families living in the Villa (slum) 21-24 in the South of the city of Buenos Aires seeking to promote their development through five pillars: education, health, work, housing and pensions. They want a society without barriers that provide opportunities for the sustainable development of people. They run a Mother-Child Center and different educational and health programs for kids of all ages.
Cape Town, South Africa with CIEE
Service Internship with NGO/NPO:
Intern with an NGO/NPO providing services to communities in need or at risk.
Social Service Internship:
Intern with a governmental entity to assess social service needs and effectiveness of implemented services and programs.
Dublin, Ireland with World Endeavors
Pediatric Hippotherapy Internship:
Join a wonderful organization providing therapy services for children and young adults with sight loss, autism, and other disabilities. Clients involved in the Equine Assisted Therapy program care for horses and engage in therapy-based activities to enhance their physical, emotional, social, cognitive, behavioral and educational skills. Interns work closely with the clients, their care teams and the horses, assisting with:
-Sensory preparation - helping clients prepare the horses for riding sessions
-Horseback riding sessions - guiding clients through therapeutic activities and exercises on horseback
-Grooming - assisting clients as they care for the horses following the riding sessions
Florence, Italy with World Endeavors
Mental and Physical Health Services Internship:
Research and clinical center focused on studying the epidemiology of mental and physical disorders, the symptomatic presentations, the effectiveness of therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation, and providing services for people with intellectual disabilities.
Psycho-social Rehabilitation, OT Internship:
NGO that deals with the psycho-social integration of people suffering or who have suffered from mental or psychological distress through the creation of a shared space, open to all, in which there is a real breaking down of the stigma surrounding mental health. Opportunities are provided for fun, socialization, well-being, culture, rehabilitation, training and information. Services provided include group therapy with professionals and peers, art therapy laboratories, socio-rehabilitation activities, social-work placements, training internships, and integration and social reintegration activities. Interns work in partnership with the management team in the psycho-social rehabilitation of clients by assisting with occupational therapy sessions within the structures of the association, mainly through group sessions, art therapy, and empowerment through employment training programs, which include a number of local restaurants as well as a beach club and resort with facilities accessible to people with disabilities.
London, UK with Anglo Educational Services
Social Services Internship with a Mental Health Charity:
A social services internship with a mental health charity providing recovery services to adults. The interns can expect to get involved with workshops for their patients, assisting patients with daily activities and providing emotional and social support to patients throughout their stay/field trips.
Social Service Internship with a Charity and Community Centre:
A social services internship with a charity and community centre with a long history of supporting people across the community. The interns can expect to get involved with weekly training sessions, having their own clients to meet with and support, as well as assisting with workshops and walk-ins.
Madrid, Spain with World Endeavors
Social Integration Internship:
Organization supporting social reintegration for individuals affected by brain injury and their families. Interns arrange occupational workshops and activities, provide guidance and counseling, assist with assessing and treating cognitive alterations and work with individuals to improve or maintain their ability to perform meaningful daily activities. B2 minimum Spanish required.
Migrant Services NGO Internship:
NGO that welcomes and provides resources to migrants. Interns participate in arranging summer school activities for the children, assist with arranging Spanish classes for adults and provide marketing support for the programs through social networks and the website.
Paris, France with World Endeavors
NGO Internship Providing Migrant Children Support:
NGO that provides educational programming to Lebanese children who have migrated to France. Interns assist with arranging activities related to arts and cultural exchange to engage the children, like music education, library resources and outdoor recreation.
Internship with Humanitarian Organization:
NGO working toward global development and promoting respect for human dignity while assisting people of diverse origins with education, citizenship and integration into society. They mainly assist young people, women and asylum seekers. Interns participate in sociolinguistic workshops, manage communication and marketing initiatives including social media and website updates and translate flyers and other marketing or informational materials.
Prague, Czech Republic with World Endeavors
Social Work Internship with Nonprofit or Government Organization:
Social Work interns will work with nonprofit or government organizations, aiding individual clients and assisting with community outreach initiatives and public health and safety programs.
Placements are available at private health centers and at elderly care facilities.
Rabat, Morocco with World Endeavors
Social Work Internship with Nonprofit or Government Organization:
Social Work interns work with nonprofit or government organizations, aiding individual clients and assisting with community outreach initiatives and public health and safety programs.
NGO for Migrant and Refugee Services: Share your time and talents with an NGO that works to address the challenges faced by migrants, refugees and disadvantaged youth. In an effort to protect diversity and promote the value of all cultures, this organization provides opportunities for dialogue between the many different people inhabiting Morocco together. They work to promote integration of underprivileged Moroccans, Sub-Saharan migrants and refugees within Moroccan society, as well as to promote and facilitate migrants' voluntary return to their home countries. The organization has a reception center for sub-Saharan migrants, Syrians and other migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, where they offer psychological, pedagogical and social assistance and support. They also strive to provide protection and assistance to the most vulnerable people, including unaccompanied children, people with disabilities and women at risk.
Youth Development Internship:
Youth Development interns assist experienced educators with projects such as creating and implementing workshops, coaching sports teams, coordinating youth plays, and planning family night activities.
Sydney, Australia with World Endeavors
Social Work Internship:
Past Social Work interns have worked with older adults, following up on client concerns, joining the social worker on home visits, updating client records, attending day center for direct contact with clients, accompanying clients from the day center to medical appointments, and assisting with implementing activities and outings.