Well, it's going on 9 AM here in Cape Town and I'm sitting in the offices of Connect-123, overlooking Table Mountain and the Central Business District. Just a lovely city, and everyone has been more than hospitable.Connect-123 started as our oldest son's unique idea after he had participated in social venture capital work in Cape Town. From that experience, and from his lovely wife who is native to South Africa, they developed a number of valuable business contacts. This enabled them to begin offering students and early career professionals customized volunteer and internship work experiences in an emerging economy.
Most recently, Connect-123 has expanded to Buenos Aires, another beautiful city, to offer internship and volunteer work experiences there.
The customization of the internships has meant that students can gain experience in the fields of their choice, while enjoying a peer group of interns and sampling a new culture. If readers are interested, they can check out the Facebook page for Connect-123 and see what's going on.
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Aaaah... man I miss South Africa and Cape Town in particular... sniff... (as you can tell I'm SA'ian and working elsewhere in the world...) Anyway, I hope you enjoy your stay in SA!
Brett ~
Absolutely brilliant. A worthwhile project with worthwhile goals.
Both my wife and I have direct experience studying, interning and working internationally. We observe in others with similar backgrounds that they have a depth and breadth of understanding of their work, colleagues and themselves sometimes missing in those not fortunate to have such opportunities.
The Contact 123 premise is a good one, and their expansion indicates people recognize it.
Along these lines, for many years my wife and I have been involved with and have supported social entrepreneurship in the developing world through Ashoka.org. An organization the founders of Contact 123 have no doubt heard of.
Work like this helps one keep hope alive during "interesting" times.
Congratulations to all. Keep it up!
Adam.
very informative, thank you
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