An internship with one of our overseas projects offers you
the opportunity to gain up to six months' practical experience in development
cooperation and find out what working in the field on a daily basis in another
country is really like.
During your placement you will be provided with extensive
support and assigned a mentor but when we award internships in foreign
countries, we also ensure that our interns are able to make a useful
contribution to the work going on there and that they organize their stay in
the country themselves to a large extent.
Framework conditions
Our internships last for a maximum of six months. You
don't need to worry about finding accommodation in the project
country, as this will be provided for you by Welthungerhilfe. In
addition, we pay a monthly allowance of 200 euros.
You are responsible for procuring a visa for the
country you would like to work in, although we will of course help you with
this and supply you with any documents you require, such as an internship
contract. Welthungerhilfe will reimburse you for the cost of the visa.
As an intern you are essentially responsible for organizing
your stay yourself and will bear any expenses connected with this. The
main costs will be your flights and, because we don't offer group policies
for interns, international health insurance including emergency assistance,
as well as accident insurance.
The projects / countries
It is possible to apply for an internship in any project
countries, that are generally classified as stable.
The following project countries are marked as high risk
countries and can therefore not be applied for: Afghanistan, Burundi,
Central African Republic, DR Congo, Iraq, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Pakistan,
South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey.
The following Welthungerhilfe offices hire interns on a
regular basis:
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Kampala, Uganda (for projects in Congo, Uganda)
Monrovia, Liberia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
You can find information on the projects of Welthungerhilfe
on the following websites:
Please note that unfortunately, information is not available
for publication on every project / country. You can be sure, however, that all
offices mentioned on our website are currently implementing projects, even if
in some cases the corresponding project descriptions are not published.
You should be aware that internships abroad are meant to
provide a general overview of the work in development cooperation. Even if in a
certain country a project is implemented which is of particular interest to
you, it cannot be guaranteed that you will be mainly working on that project in
your internship. Considering that the internship is limited to a relatively
short period of a maximum of 6 months, it may very well occur that during the
course of your internship you do not get any access to that project at all,
e.g. due to traveling restrictions for political or climatic reasons or because
the project has reached its final phase. You should therefore choose a country
that you are generally interested in and describe your particular areas of
interest in your letter of motivation.
In any case, you can gather very interesting experience in
any of our projects. In principle, the projects are related to the following
issues, while the focus may vary from case to case:
The application process:
In order to respond to frequently asked questions - please
take note of the following points:
The possibility of an internship in one of our offices
always depends on the current workload in the offices and the qualifications
and expectations of the applicant. Normally, we do not have specific
descriptions and/or timeframes/deadlines for the internships (if not separately
mentioned).
Please use the information on our website to gather
information about the projects in the different countries to see if the projects
there fit your expectations. More detailed information going beyond what is
described on the Welthungerhilfe website can only be provided once a particular
office wishes to offer you an intern position.
Please do not contact the offices abroad directly!
It is not possible to apply generally according to areas of
interest or for all offices/countries. Therefore, please limit your application
to only one office/country per application e-mail. If you would like to apply
for more than one office/country, please send a complete set of application
documents for each office/country.
You can send as many applications as you want and of course
you can apply again at a later date.
For organizational reasons, you should apply about 3 to 6
months before the intended period of your internship. Of course, you may also
apply at a sooner or a later stage.
Even if shorter periods are generally possible, it is
advisable that the internship lasts at least 2 months.
Applicants are not subject to any restriction of age, nationality,
language skills in German or level of academic qualification! Anyone may apply
who would like to gain a comprehensive insight into the professional field of
development cooperation.
In line with the desire to afford a broad insight, we
consider it to be particularly important that the internship takes place in a
country other than the intern’s country of origin. This is essential to learn
about the challenges of working in an international environment.
Feedback on your application
The office will contact you directly within four weeks after
the receipt of your application should they be interested and able to offer you
an internship.
If you haven’t heard from the office within four weeks, we
are unfortunately not able to offer you an internship in your desired location.
Because of the large number of applications we don’t have the capacities to
send a separate letter of refusal.
Necessary documents
For us to be able to consider your application please
include just the following documents (please provide all documents in
English if no other language is separately mentioned!):
A completed copy of our Data Collection Form (see downloads
on the right)
A detailed letter of application (see downloads on the
right)
Your CV
Please send your complete application to Ms. Christine
Mader:
We are looking forward to your application!!!
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