1. Why are you interested in interning at this non-profit organization? What about the organization’s mission and work appeals to you?
I was drawn to the fact this internship focuses on helping refugees and immigrants. Looking at the nonprofit’s mission at how it provides resources and empowers immigrants and refugees resonated with my experiences. My parents are immigrants in this nation. They came to the United States in the late 80’s and early 90’s. They didn’t speak a word of English, didn’t know how to access resources that were available, or even know what resources were available to them. When my older sister was born, she had a hole in her heart that required surgery. My parents didn’t know what to do and it only because someone reached …show more content…
What do you hope to gain/learn throughout your internship?
I hope to learn how to interact with refugee and immigrant communities on a professional level through this internship. I want to learn how an organization reaches out to such a pool of people and how other organizations can do so too. I attended a workshop with CAAAV, a pan-asian community based organization that works to build the power of low-income Asian immigrants and refugees in NYC, and their answer to how they reach their clients left me a little confused. It seemed majority of their clients they met was through the word of mouth and it often took some convincing before people were willing to allow the organization to help them. I want to learn how Nationalities Service Center reaches its clients and what’s the most effective method to help reach new clients.
I also hope to gain a larger understanding of how people advocate for the needs of refugee and immigrant groups. Since I’m possibly thinking of going into social work, I want to learn how groups use the government or other resources to push their agenda foreword.
3. How do you see this experience fitting into your future …show more content…
A couple weeks ago I attended the 1vyG conference at Yale, which is an annual First-Generation/Low-income university conference which takes place at an Ivy League university each year. At that conference, I attended a workshop on different types of social work which Ivy League Alumni were heavily involved in. I never considered social work before that workshop and after learning about the way communities were immensely benefitting from the work being done reeled me in. One of the speakers explained how her law degree gave her the skills to build her non-profit and create an organization to solve a need she saw wasn’t being met. I’m considering a law degree amongst other things. In my own community, the Punjabi-American community in California, I don’t see the issues recent immigrants face being solved, such as the language barrier. It prevents Punjabi immigrants from getting jobs they would otherwise qualify for, or making simple paperwork into impossible tasks. Although there are adult English schools in my county, I don’t believe there is an organization which specially helps and reaches out to Punjabis beside the Sikh temple. I see this experience as training in how to work in immigrant communities and learn how this nonprofit is structured, so one day I can possibly create my
I was drawn to the fact this internship focuses on helping refugees and immigrants. Looking at the nonprofit’s mission at how it provides resources and empowers immigrants and refugees resonated with my experiences. My parents are immigrants in this nation. They came to the United States in the late 80’s and early 90’s. They didn’t speak a word of English, didn’t know how to access resources that were available, or even know what resources were available to them. When my older sister was born, she had a hole in her heart that required surgery. My parents didn’t know what to do and it only because someone reached …show more content…
What do you hope to gain/learn throughout your internship?
I hope to learn how to interact with refugee and immigrant communities on a professional level through this internship. I want to learn how an organization reaches out to such a pool of people and how other organizations can do so too. I attended a workshop with CAAAV, a pan-asian community based organization that works to build the power of low-income Asian immigrants and refugees in NYC, and their answer to how they reach their clients left me a little confused. It seemed majority of their clients they met was through the word of mouth and it often took some convincing before people were willing to allow the organization to help them. I want to learn how Nationalities Service Center reaches its clients and what’s the most effective method to help reach new clients.
I also hope to gain a larger understanding of how people advocate for the needs of refugee and immigrant groups. Since I’m possibly thinking of going into social work, I want to learn how groups use the government or other resources to push their agenda foreword.
3. How do you see this experience fitting into your future …show more content…
A couple weeks ago I attended the 1vyG conference at Yale, which is an annual First-Generation/Low-income university conference which takes place at an Ivy League university each year. At that conference, I attended a workshop on different types of social work which Ivy League Alumni were heavily involved in. I never considered social work before that workshop and after learning about the way communities were immensely benefitting from the work being done reeled me in. One of the speakers explained how her law degree gave her the skills to build her non-profit and create an organization to solve a need she saw wasn’t being met. I’m considering a law degree amongst other things. In my own community, the Punjabi-American community in California, I don’t see the issues recent immigrants face being solved, such as the language barrier. It prevents Punjabi immigrants from getting jobs they would otherwise qualify for, or making simple paperwork into impossible tasks. Although there are adult English schools in my county, I don’t believe there is an organization which specially helps and reaches out to Punjabis beside the Sikh temple. I see this experience as training in how to work in immigrant communities and learn how this nonprofit is structured, so one day I can possibly create my