Support for Students- Internships

Georgina Blanco-Mancilla in Nigerian village, 2003

The Citizenship DRC created an award scheme to support IDS students who wished to undertake research around the DRC's core themes with DRC partners. Internship placements occurred between 2003-2006. No future internship placements are expected in the near future.

Past Interns Say...

' Sharing with the Tuxtlas peasants and learning about their day-to-day realities enhanced the meaning of my studies and reconnected me with the own problems of my country’.

Lina Maria Villa Cordoba , Citizenship DRC Intern for Mexico , June-July 2004

'The opportunity to work as an intern with the Theatre for Development Centre (TFDC) gave me more than I expected. It offered me the chance to see and experience how grass-roots organisations with a bottom-up and participatory approach actually work, since my previous experiences in the development field have been with Government Agencies. Coming from a Latin-American context, this experience was also an eye opener of the reality of sub-Saharan Africa and the kind of problems these countries share. I also had the opportunity of seeing and experiencing what I have learnt in the classroom, what I have read in books'
Georgina Blanco Mancilla -Intern to Nigeria 2003