2011 MDP Practicums

 LISE AFOY LISE AFOY
Lise worked with MAP International in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on projects including a campaign to raise awareness and provide support for victims of child sexual abuse She helped clinic staff measuring and weighing children and distributing medications and nutritional supplements to rural households. She worked with MAP's primary school children in developing a curriculum for Critical Thinking. She also accompanied the Health Promoters team to remote areas to help organizing workshops on Natural Healing.

 JENNA BLUMENTHAL JENNA BLUMENTHAL
Jenna served as an intern with CARE International in Benin, West Africa. She worked on a hygiene promotion project in rural primary schools that were affected by severe flooding. She helped teach children about hygiene and safe food handling practices. Jenna also contributed to developing a monitoring and evaluation component by conducting focus groups and surveys with parents and children to determine their hygiene practices. She enjoyed observing the project evolve during her ten weeks in the country and even learned how to say a few words in the local Fon language!

 MIRANDA BODFISH MIRANDA BODFISH
Miranda spent her summer working with CARE International in Cotonou, Benin.  During her internship, she conducted qualitative research to identify local perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes towards maternal and child nutrition. She also developed a training manual in French directed to community volunteers who are working with adolescents on team building, sexual health, and education.

 GRAY CLEVENGER GRAY CLEVENGER
Gray performed his internship in Liberia, working with The Carter Center's Access to Justice Project. He undertook in-field assessments of the Center's programs and participated in consultations with the National Elections Commission, the United Nations Peace-building Commission, and civil society organizations. Gray also managed a research team from the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, conducting an impact evaluation of the Center's Community Legal Advisor Program.

 ALICIA CLIFTON ALICIA CLIFTON
Alicia lived in Butare, the second largest city in Rwanda, this summer working on the Great Lakes Advocacy Initiative at CARE International in Rwanda. The project is focused on advocating for the better implementation of gender equality laws and policies including improved service for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). Alicia assisted with trainings of GBV case managers and activists as well as the crafting of CARE Rwanda's national GBV advocacy strategy.

 JENNIEV DOWDLE JENNIEV DOWDLE
JennieV spent this summer conducting fieldwork with MAP International in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She was part of a team working on Total Health approaches, which seek to integrate public health and sustainable development. As part of this work, JennieV developed a Critical Thinking Curriculum Training in collaboration with the Educational Community for Life and resources for the Health Promoters team. She also participated in an advocacy campaign for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse.

 MARISA MIA GALLEGOMARISA "MIA" GALLEGOS
Mia worked for CARE Ethiopia.  She conducted stakeholder interviews and analysis for CARE Ethiopia's chronically food insecure women's project.  She researched and developed human interest stories on drought and famine as well as compiled case studies to document the impact of the Gew Gew Project on food security in targeted communities.  Mia also worked with a team to design a program aimed to implement innovative approaches to food insecurity.

 HALEY HOLT HALEY HOLT
Haley performed her internship as an intern for the Emergency Response Unit of CAREEthiopia.  Haley helped drafting a Strategy for Emergency Response to worsening food security risks due to the East African drought. The strategy integrated cross-sectoral interventions in support of food security, nutrition, livelihoods, and water and sanitation. Haley helped debrief CARE officials and other donor representatives on fact-finding missions to address the famine situation in the region. Haley also traveled to the East Hararghe region of Ethiopia to interview affected households and project beneficiaries.

 BETSY ROOT BETSY ROOT
Betsy completed her first summer of field work in Cochabamba, Bolivia with MAP International, a non-governmental organization that promotes Total Health - the capacity of individuals, families and communities to work together to transform the conditions that promote, in a sustainable way, their physical, emotional, economic, social, environmental and spiritual wellbeing. During her internship, Betsy worked on curriculum design with MAP's primary school and resource development with the Healthy Communities team.

 ATIENO SAMANDARI ATIENO SAMANDARI
Atieno spent three weeks in India this summer as a UNICEF intern in Jharkhand State, where she focused on educational best practices for Child Friendly Schools in India. This opportunity built upon her previous experience with UNICEF in Botswana, where she developed educational materials for children. She spent the rest of the summer working as an intern at CARE headquarters in Atlanta, where she helped develop a new program for empowering poor smallholder women farmers in India, Bangladesh, Mali, Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania.

 CLAUDIE SOSSAH CLAUDIE SOSSAH
Claudie started her summer field training in Jharkhand state (India), working with UNICEFon the evaluation of Child Friendly Schools to identify best practices.  In August, she worked with the Abidjan Lagos Corridor Organization (ALCO) based in Cotonou, Benin.  Her activities included advocacy/partnership, assessing capacity building needs and HIV/AIDS prevention. She collaborated with ALCO’s various teams, NGOs, Civil Society Associations and the private sector.  In addition, she worked with a team of experts on strategic planning for ALCO's project in Togo.

 STEPHANIE STAWICKI STEPHANIE STAWICKI
Stephanie worked with the Millennium Water Program-Ethiopia at the CARE Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa. She managed a water scheme functionality and governance snapshot study design and facilitation among 10 CARE water team members in the United Kingdom, Atlanta, and Ethiopia, resulting in the completion of 100 water point surveys. She analyzed the survey data and validated the findings through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with members of low and high performing water schemes. Her report is being distributed to CARE Ethiopia/Millennium Water Program partners and donors.

 MOLLY WINSTON MOLLY WINSTON
Molly spent the first part of the summer working with UNICEF in India. After returning to Atlanta she served as an intern at CARE headquarters, focusing on a polio immunization project. She designed an immunization record keeping system for community health volunteers to use in pastoralist areas in Ethiopia. Molly carried out research on ways to integrate vaccine delivery with pastoralists' mobile livelihoods systems. She also contributed to extending the newly developed protocols to partner organizations.