Intern Abroad
Overview
Gain valuable professional experience as you intern at a nonprofit, NGOs or other organizations. You'll learn more about yourself and what you want to do in the future as you get practical workplace skills.
Internships are specifically designed to provide you with professional experience for career exploration and development. To ensure the best internship experience, internships should last at least one month, and a 2-6 month period is recommended.
While we do not require a specific major, we look for skills, abilities and goals that would be beneficial for a given project. In addition to an application process, expect internship workload and expectations to be more in line with that of a professional placement.
As with all ProWorld experiences, our onsite staff is here to support you every step in your journey with us. Many members of our team are ProWorld alumni, so we are uniquely prepared to guide you in your internship.
Curious to learn more about the internship program and what it entails, or how it differs from the volunteer expeience? Visit our FAQ page for more information.
Projects
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Ghana
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Live and Breathe the Social System in Ghana
If you are interested in understanding how the social welfare system works in Africa, this is your opportunity to shadow the Cape Coast Director of Social Welfare and become...
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This ProWorld project supports rescued victims of human trafficking and provides educational and vocational training. The transition of re-integration can be painful...
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Description and Impact
As woman, it is especially hard in Ghana’s society to make a living and sustain oneself and family. This difficulty is significantly...
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Rural poverty and the lack of access to opportunity are huge issues throughout Ghana, particularly for widows who lack financial support from...
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Help Reduce Pollution in Cape Coast
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This organization understands that for true change to occur there needs to be a self-help mentality throughout the community. There are so...
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Help Reduce Toxic Exposure through Analysis and Education
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With all of the humanitarian needs of Cape Coast it is common to forget about the environmental issues at hand. Environmental stability...
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HIV/AIDS infection takes a huge toll on a developing community. A multi-faceted approach is usually the most successful in terms of...
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Make Healthcare Accessible to Rural Areas
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Twenty-five thousand people die every day in developing countries for lack of basic medicines that cost less than one dollar, and rural Ghanaian...
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Description and Impact
This organization was founded in 2008 by a doctor with the intention of educating, sensitizing and creating a heightened awareness on the role...
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Description and Impact
This organization understands that for true change to occur there needs to be a self-help...
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Live and Breathe the Social System in Ghana
Description and Impact
The Cape Coast Social Welfare Department is the principal advocate, coordinator and assessor of primarily all the community programs and...
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This is a featured project
Description and Impact
Rural poverty and the lack of access to opportunity are huge issues throughout Ghana, particularly for women. Without economic opportunities,...
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Description and Impact
As woman, it is especially hard in Ghana’s society to make a living and sustain oneself and family. This difficulty is significantly...
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This ProWorld project supports rescued victims of human trafficking and provides educational and vocational training. The transition of re-integration can be painful...
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Description and Impact
Unfortunately, Ghanaian society still has strong prejudices against those who have special needs or suffer from some type of learning disability...
Thailand
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In poverty-stricken areas, the oldest and the youngest members of society are often forgotten. This organization seeks to improve the quality of life for older people by...
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Description and Impact
Over half a million people in Thailand are living with HIV. Thailand once led the developing world in HIV prevention, with massive public health...
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Many people living in rural areas in Thailand suffer from diseases and medical conditions that can be easily prevented and addressed with early...
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Cervical and breast cancers are the two highest causes of death for Thai women. Furthermore, the Chiang Mai Province has the highest incidence...
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Description and Impact
Many people living in rural areas in Thailand suffer from diseases and medical conditions can be easily prevented and addressed with early...
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In poverty-stricken areas, the oldest and the youngest members of society are often forgotten. This organization seeks to improve the quality of life for older people...
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This is a featured projectSupport a News Agency as they Report on Local Politics and Human Rights Issues
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The residents of the Shan state of Burma are denied their rights to freedom of speech by the military government. The government has had trouble...
Belize
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Reach out and Read with the Punta Gorda Community Library
Description and Impact
Despite the improvement of literacy over the last 20 years, illiteracy has continued to been a serious issue that has hindered the education and...
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The Best Part of Farming – FOOD!
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Eating fresh, organic, local food is both healthy and beneficial for the community and environment. Consumption of local food ensures that...
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Work on a Rural Organic Chocolate Farm Manufacturing Facility
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Due to globalization, cocoa production is becoming increasingly outsourced throughout the world. In Belize particularly, a handful of farms and...
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Monitor & Maintain Habitats and Protected Lands
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Nearly half of Belize’s land is protected, but to preserve and sustain it, we need to study it, and ensure that the habitats remain viable...
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Description and Impact
The availability of high quality medical care is vital to any community’s needs. Developing countries such as Belize often have problems...
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Access to quality healthcare is vital to every community’s need. Many Belizeans lack access to adequate levels of health care and weight...
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This project was developed by a ProWorld intern due to the need for more education on nutrition and healthy eating habits within San Ignacio and...
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Benque Pharmacy is a fairly busy pharmacy within the Benque town clinic, which is the next town over from San Ignacio. The pharmacy treats...
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This is a featured projectTeach Environmental Responsibility Through Film
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Often times the public responds to issues only after they’ve seen them with their own eyes. Making an issue more tangible and...
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Be the Teacher You Always Wish You Had
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Crowded classrooms and slim resources make it easy for some kids to fall through the cracks. Our teacher’s assistant program in...
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Teach a Semester of French to Primary Grade Students
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Kids living in a country funded by tourism are more likely to find jobs both at home and abroad if they speak two or more languages. ProWorld...
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Teach Language Arts to Primary Grade Students
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Despite the improvement of literacy over the last 20 years, illiteracy has continued to been a serious issue that has hindered the education and...
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Help the Teachers Help the Kids
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In the Cayo District, the primary schools are crowded and lack resources. This makes it easy for students to fall behind academically. As a...
Brazil
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Help Small Businesses Get off to a Solid Start
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ProWorld Brazil works with a microcredit institution that provides loans of between R$300 and R$15,000 to an underserved market of individuals,...
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Help Trafficked and Exploited Women Find Freedom
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Violence against women is a serious problem in Brazil. Physical, sexual, and psychological abuse is associated with power and inequality in...
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Brazil is home to 60% of the Amazon rainforest and is considered to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on earth. However,...
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Although the Brazilian economy is flourishing, many Brazilians have not felt the benefits of industrialization. The gap...
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Jobs keep people from becoming migrants. To sustain villages in rural Salvador, this ProWorld program coordinates with businesses in rural communities to help them become...
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This is a featured projectHelp Small Businesses Get off to a Solid Start
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If you’ve got a good idea, but no credit, it’s nearly impossible to start a small...
Mexico
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Promote Healthy Eating to Encourage Healthy Communities
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According to the 2000 census, Oaxaca is the second-poorest state in Mexico. The average person in Oaxaca earns less than $5.00 per day and...
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Help preserve indigenous and Mestizo art and history
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Most of the rural communities outside of Oaxaca are comprised of indigenous and mestizo peoples who are becoming increasingly marginalized as...
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Classes, Seminars, and Sports for Locals
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Many of the rural communities outside of Oaxaca are home to low income families with fewer resources than those residing in the nearby city....
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Be a Friend to Abandoned or Abused Kids
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Many women in Oaxaca are very poor and marginalized and are forced to seek night time employment in order to survive. As single mothers, their...
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Help Kids with Disabilities Ride Horses
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The state of Oaxaca is one of the poorest in Mexico and subsequently it is lacking in social...
Bike Paths and Trees Keep the Southern Sierra Clean and PristineDescription and Impact
Although surrounded by the lush and beautiful Sierra de Madre Mountains, the valleys and...
Use Resources More EffectivelyDescription and Impact
Amongst all of the problems that plague many people in the state of Oaxaca, one of the most dangerous and detrimental to the long term success...
“You have HIV” is not a diagnosis anyone wants to hear, and the road is more difficult for people in poverty. This ProWorld program offers support and...
This is a featured projectHelp Kids with Disabilities Ride HorsesDescription and Impact
The state of Oaxaca is one of the poorest in Mexico and subsequently it is lacking in social and human services for its citizens, especially for...
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One Mexico’s most forgotten group is poor children with disabilities. For these children, overcoming poverty and a disability is a double...
Promote Healthy Eating to Encourage Healthy CommunitiesDescription and Impact
According to the 2000 census, Oaxaca is the second-poorest state in Mexico. The average...
This is a featured projectUse Your Spanish Skills to Assess and Deliver Basic Health ServicesDescription and Impact
According to the 2000 census, Oaxaca is the second-poorest state in Mexico. The average person in Oaxaca earns less than $5.00. In order to...
Microloans for women’s enterprisesDescription and Impact
Being the second poorest state in Mexico, more than 75% of its population lives in poverty. For women in Oaxaca, life is especially hard because...
Classes, Seminars, and Sports for LocalsSpend your time as an intern at a ProWorld sponsored community center. With a roster of computer classes, literacy seminars, and sports programs, the center provides...
Work with Disabled KidsWhen disabled kids in impoverished areas can’t attend school, they usually have nowhere else to go. This ProWorld program provides therapy and educational...
Help Kids Living Away from Home for School Make the TransitionStudents travel from rural villages to attend high school in Oaxaca. Living away from their families for the first time, the transition between rural and urban life can...
Be a Friend to Abandoned or Abused KidsDescription and Impact
Many women in Oaxaca are very poor and marginalized and are forced to seek night time...
Bike Paths and Trees Keep the Southern Sierra Clean and PristineDescription and Impact
Although surrounded by the lush and beautiful Sierra de Madre Mountains, the valleys and cities of Oaxaca are plagued with environmental...
Peru
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Cargadores Carry upwards of 250 lbs of Goods and Merchandise Around the City. Help Make Their Load a Little Lighter
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With the vast rise in migration from rural areas of Peru to Cusco over the last three decades, the city has seen a significant increase in the...
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Experience the past and present of the Andes as you chronicle it for the future
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Although their culture and rich and storied, indigenous Peruvians are some of the poorest and most disenfranchised members of society. To many,...
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Help People in Villages Around Cusco Feel Better
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Although the Peruvian government provides health insurance to all citizens with formal employment, this accounts only roughly a quarter of the...
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The Peruvian elderly often find themselves out of luck and with nowhere to go. Some have...
Use your Spanish skills and your statistics programming experience (like SPSS) to improve development work around the worldThis project creates and evaluates ideas that make development work in Peru effective. Analyzing the projects microfinance organizations have begun, in Cusco they focus...
Help Improve Health and Wellness of Andes VillagersIn the high Andes mountains, villagers eat what they grow. Upwards of 10,000’, what grows best is potatoes. This limited access to a variety of vegetables...
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Although traditional Andean weaving has been around since pre-Columbian times, it is now at risk of disappearing completely. As the younger...
Ecuador
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Help Manage Reforestation Efforts in Areas Ravaged by Invasive Species
As a result of the lack of fruit and vegetable production on the Galapagos Islands, boats from the Ecuadorian mainland unload fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, and at...
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Learn Sustainable Agriculture in a Community Development Setting
Despite its small landmass, Ecuador is renowned for its megadiversity due to its variety of life zones, including: mangrove swamps, dry tropical forest, tropical cloud forest,...
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This is a featured projectRestore Ceremonial Tea Use in Ecuadorean Culture
Description and Impact
Become an intern in Ecuador and join this unique project that works using a holistic market-based...
India
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Help Indian Villages Save their Most Precious Resource
Rajasthan is a drought prone state in India and the communities in many of its districts face hardships due to scarcity of water. This has had an impact on the livelihood...
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This is a featured projectEncourage Local Women to Gain Financial Freedom
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Help support education, women's empowerment and microfinance at one of the largest NGOs in all of...
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Help Special Needs Children Succeed
There are some families in India that consider the birth of a mentally challenged child a curse. In addition, poor families with limited resources often lack the necessary...
Nepal
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Learn the Ins and Outs of Nepali Healthcare
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In Nepal, the health-care problems are varied and enormous. Being one of the poorest countries in the world, the majority of people live...
- 29,000
Trees Planted
- 10
Countries
- 5,100
ProWorld Volunteers
- 22
Schools Constructed
- 6,100
Stoves Installed
- 18,450
Patients Treated
- 4
Centers Built
- $7,100,000
Capital Injected
- 860,000
Service Hours