Hello Professor O'Neil,
You may remember me
from Methods & Analysis a few years back. I graduated from Puget
Sound in 2012 with a degree with Politics, emphasis in Political
Theory. I am now living & working in Ecuador with an organization
called Community Enterprise Solutions, which uses microfinance
to empower women economically, while simultaneously providing needed
technologies (mainly public health related) to rural villages.
During the summer, we also help coordinate Social Entrepreneur
Corps (SE Corps), the social enterprise that we partner with. SE Corps
is a summer internship opportunity for college aged students to do on
the ground work with the MicroConsignment Model
that we use.
The students that do SE Corps go out in the field with us to do
campaigns for Community Enterprise Solutions, propose business ideas,
and help evaluate the effectiveness & reach of our programming. The
program is about 8 weeks long, includes intensive
Spanish classes at the beginning, and various home stays and projects
throughout.
I thought that SE Corps sounded like the perfect opportunity for
UPS students, especially those interested in politics/Latin America. I
just wanted to pass this along to you!
Please let me know if you have any questions about the program!
Here's a link to the program website & overview about what the program includes: http://www.socialentrepreneurcorps.com/.
