Event Details:

Come and hear more about this unique combined study abroad and international internship opportunity over pizza and drinks at the main information meeting. Bring a friend who may also be interested to hear more about the program.

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Program Overview: This is a great opportunity for world-curious and adventurous students to experience Global Africa in a rich and profound way, and make a positive contribution to the wellbeing of others. The Malawi program offers a rare, deep-immersion opportunity that combines a rich and potentially life-changing study abroad experience and an international internship opportunity while earning summer credits in Africa's friendliest country, Malawi. Following an onsite supervisory visit, a former MSU Director of Education Abroad considered this program the best MSU program she had ever visited.

Objective: At the end of the seven weeks, students can understand and critique development processes in an underdeveloped African country from the lens of a non-governmental organization (NGO). Themes include how NGOs balance demands from their funders and those of the people they are supposed to serve.

Structure: Students spend the first week on orientation activities, field trips including a visit to Lake Malawi, and selection of/placement in an NGO that is matched closely to individual student interests. They spend the next six weeks on the internship, earning six internship credits for their MSU program. The students have weekly discussion forums and write weekly journals. They also write a reflection essay at the end of the internship. Living and working among Malawians for seven weeks also gives students a rare opportunity for cultural interchange and a deeper understanding of the cultures and people of Malawi than most programs.

Additional information: For more information, e-mail the program leader, Professor Leo Zulu at zulu(at)msu.edu. 

For more information and to register for this unique program, look up this Malawi program at the the MSU Education Abroad website https://osa.isp.msu.edu/Programs/program/index/108699