What is Yuva for Sewa?
Selection Criteria:
Interns must (1) have graduated high school or be at least 18 years old at the start of the internship (2) be able to participate in the full ten-week internship program (3) be currently residing in US or Canada and (4) possess strong enthusiasm to make a difference.
Program Details:
The 2014 Yuva for Sewa internship projects are located in various locations inIndia (Pune, Bhagyanagar (Hyderabad), and Bangalore). The internship will start Monday June 9th and end on Friday August 15th 2014 *(Flexible for students whose finals are conflictin with our start date). All interns will be required to arrive in Bangalore by Sunday June 8th 2014 where the one week orientation program will be conducted. Orientation will include general training about projects and basic cultural information for interns. After orientation, interns will focus on specific projects and spend the duration of their internship with other volunteers working on the same project. For detailed project descriptions, please visit: http://sewausa.org/projects
Application Process:
Interested applicants should submit an online application form by March 15th, 2014. Selected applicants will be invited to a phone interview followed by an in-person interview. Successfull applicants will be notified by email or phone. Only upon accepting the internship offer, applicants will be required to submit a $450 administration and application fee.
Please email all questions to yfs@sewausa.org
For videos and blogs of past interns visit: YFS Past Interns Video and Shivani Parikh’s Blog “My Indian Summer.”
