The FSD Intern Abroad program serves students and young professionals looking to gain international development experience and training while working to support an underserved community. The program commonly acts as a catalyst for building a career in development, strengthening applications for graduate programs, or cultivating relationships with international communities and organizations.  Intern with FSD in microfinance to empower mariginalized and impoverished communities. Along with credit lending, FSD trains entrepreneurs in how to effectively integrate credit management and savings principles into their business growth.  Since traditional lending does not reach underserved communities, microfinance offers a collective solution that lends small increments of capital to local businesses.

  • FSD works with a variety of local organizations to provide training and economic opportunity to communities that lack sufficient job skills. Interns work with FSD to provide programs that:
  • Educate the general public and distribute information to local agencies about the advantages of ecotourism to increase vendor and consumer awareness and ensure a more sustainable use of Argentina’s vast natural resources.
  • Provide consulting for local organizations to help them more effectively manage and utilize resources.
  • Support a cooperative of small businesses led by marginalized families who offer cleaning, masonry work, gardening, painting, plumbing, and electrical work to the general public.
  • Provide at-risk youth and uneducated persons with resources and guidance to integrate with the working community and find employment through training on local job skills, microenterprise strategies, and microcredit opportunities.
  • Work to improve production techniques for small and medium enterprises that support unemployed women and youth. For example, FSD volunteers and interns have assisted production and/or marketing of fruits and vegetables dehydrated by solar and Eolic energy. The programs aim to reduce poverty and unemployment.

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Source: iHipo – International Careers