Summer Internship (May 17-June 17)

Start Date: May 18, 2014 12:00 PM
End Date: Jun 18, 2014 12:00 PM

Join Global Student Embassy (GSE) for a summer internship in the community of Chacraseca, Nicaragua. GSE, an international education and community development organization, works in Northern California, Nicaragua, and Ecuador to address issues of food scarcity and environmental destruction. We are looking for interested student volunteers to join us this summer to help further develop our organic school farm projects that will feed hundreds of local students. Students will work alongside the local community on school garden projects and engage in other activities including practicing Spanish, living with a host family, and taking adventures to climb a volcano and visit the beaches of the Pacific Coast. GSE works with each student to develop a learning plan to guide their individual internship. The Summer Internship lasts for four weeks.

Location: Located on the outskirts of the historic city of Leon, Chacraseca is a farming community in Nicaragua that has practiced industrial farming for more than 50 years, using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and machinery. Today the land is contaminated with chemicals deep in the soil. These methods leave the once rich volcanic soils susceptible to erosion from high winds and heavy rains which greatly decrease nutrients in the soil and creates further dependency on chemicals. As a result, the community faces health and economic challenges. A growing movement has started to express mounting interest in alternative farming methods.