India - Marketing Internship

Tuition: $5,995

Duration: 7 weeks  (1 week orientation, 6 weeks internship)

Location:  Jaipur, India

You’ll be based in Jaipur (known as the Pink City) and will soon see why Jaipur considered one of India’s best planned pre-modern cities.

Our staff will pick you up at the Sanganer Airport and take you to our home-base. The first week will include an in-depth orientation covering local business etiquette, health and safety, cultural norms, and a crash course in survival Hindi. After a week of intensive orientation, you will work full-time at your internship for the next six weeks. During that time, we’ll go on a couple of excursions, learn more about the issues facing India, connect with social innovators, and build new friendships.

Breakfast will be served every day, but lunches are on your own. Most interns will eat at their workplace or will sometimes be invited to eat out with their co-workers. Dinner is served from Monday to Thursday, but not on Friday, Saturday or Sunday; this allows you to explore local restaurants or travel on the weekends.

Excursions

We will take two weekend trips from Jaipur. The first will be a trip to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, a UNESCO World Heritage site considered to be the “Jewel of Muslim Art”. Our second weekend trip will be a visit to the Hindu pilgrimage town of Pushkar, which is a cultural destination where we will also do a camel Safari with overnight camping.

The organization has a long tenure of work as an in-country partner in the World Health Organization run program on Leprosy.  It has established an exclusive residential cluster (Settlement) for 70 Leprosy affected families who are living a happy life in the settlement. The inhabitants of this settlement are fully cured of leprosy but suffer from the stigmatism in India with the disease which prevents them from fully reintegrating with the local community. They are living with their families and are engaged in gainful business/ occupation as they are empowered by the organization through skill development and training. The organization has established a School and a medical centre in this settlement where the students and patient out side of this cluster from the general community are encouraged to join and benefit from the services provided. Thorugh these services being availabel to the local community it helps helps in building confidence between the general community and those that suffer from the stigma of Lebrosy.

This organization is also participating in the National Tuberculosis awareness and eradication programme to fight the large spread of Tuberculosis in rural India.

Internship Placement

The marketing internship is an excellent opportunity to assist this organization providing much needed services to the local community and help build confidence between this community and the community at large. The marketing intern may work in one or more the following area:

1. Assist the organization in designing, preparing and launching its web site

2. Help in preparing documentation to properly represent and project the organization to the world

3. Preparemarketing proposal and strategy for the products of the organization

4. Prepare a case study and documentation of leprosy patients

5. Sensitization of community in the villages nearby to this cluster about the leprosy

You, our staff and the other interns live together in shared rooms at the home-base. Our home-base is a secure compound with an eating area and common space. You’ll share a room with just one other person and have a private bathroom and shower. You will take public transportation to work, try the local cuisine and quickly adapt yourself to the thrills and realities of life in Jaipur.

The tuition for this program is $5,995.

Included in the program:

• Group Lodging

• Breakfast and dinner*

• Ground transportation**

• Two weekend excursions

• Intensive Spanish language

• On-site speakers

• Professional staff assistance

• Local pay-as-you-go cell phone

• Welcome Reception

• Orientation

• Regular meetings your Internship Supervisor

• Official Internship Record documenting your placement

• Supplemental Travel Medical Insurance

Not included:

• International airfare
• Additional Weekend trips
• Public transportation to/from work
• Credits for your cell phone
• Immunizations
• Passport, Visa or Airport fees
• Laundry
• Personal expenses

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