Spain - Social Action Internship

You’ll be based in Barcelona city center, close to the many cultural and entertainment activities for which this city is justly famous. Our staff will pick you up at Barcelona Prat International Airport and take you to your accommodation.

The first week will include an in-depth orientation covering local business etiquette, health and safety, cultural norms, and even a crash course in Spanish. 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 Barcelona, connect with social innovators, and build new friendships.

Barcelona is convenient to many European destinations and Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt are only a short flight away. Excellent rail and air connections means a weekend is enough time to get away and experience somewhere new. But never forget Spain is extremely diverse and that a trip to Madrid, Seville or Galicia can feel like ‘leaving the country’.

As a group, we’ll take two weekend excursions, one to Spain’s Costa Brava or “Wild Coast”. By day you will enjoy exploring the Costa Brava’s quaint fishing villages and medieval towns that hug beautiful beaches and turquoise waters. The second excursion will be to the quaint, ocean side town of Tarragona, a traditional wine producing region and home to the Roman ruins of Tarraco, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Our group excursions will be unique and memorable

This organization supports the socially excluded, disadvantaged, and marginalized members of society with particular focus on children, women, families, and senior citizens by attending to their various necessities which may include unemployment, precarious contracts, scarce economic resources, ineffective or non-existent support networks, homelessness and etc.

Potential internships can include one or more of the following:

• Work at food/clothing banks
• Visiting and supporting Senior Citizens in their homes and residences
• Prepare and design workshops and courses for the unemployed
• Tutoring disadvantaged children
• Assisting recently arrived immigrants
• Conducting promotional activities (PR campaigns, conferences, publications)

Requirements

Interns should be at a minimum, conversationally fluent in Spanish.

You, our staff and the other interns live together in a student residence conveniently located in the center of Barcelona. You’ll have a room with a bathroom and shower. In the mornings you will take clean and efficient public transportation to work. Breakfast will be served every day, but lunches and dinner are on your own as you and your fellow interns will be spread out across the city. Furthermore, the mid-day ‘comida’ is the main meal of the day in Spain, not just a rushed sandwich, providing the perfect opportunity for you to socialize with co-workers.

The tuition for this program is $6,895.

Included in the program:

• Group Lodging

• Breakfast*

• Ground transportation**

• Two weekend excursions

• Spanish language refresher

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

*Breakfast is included Monday through Friday.

** Ground transportation includes airport pickup and drop-off, transportation for all scheduled group activities and excursions.  Transportation to and from the work site is usually on public transportation unless otherwise noted.  We provide practice transportation runs and detailed directions to and from work

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