Women's Empowerment Internship in Cape Town, South Africa

I’ve spent 4 months in Cape Town doing internship in an NGO. Couldn’t change a thing! Best experience I’ve ever had both based on work experience and living experience. Cape Town is a special place and will always be special for me. Once you go there you won’t want to leave. Thanks to my internship I gained more confidence and thanks to social life in Cape Town I gained some friendships that will never be forgotten.

My time at Women's Platform of the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town has been amazing to say the least. I have had the greatest team and have had the opportunity to expand my skillset a lot. Working with such vulnerable populations can be challenging but my supervisor always guided me through the process and equipped me with the right tools to deal with complex situations. I have learnt a lot about the administrative procedures that are necesarry for the well-functioning of NGOs. Moreover, I was given a lot of freedom to bring in my own ideas and was able to execute some projects such as hosting a human rights day event with a special guest from the South African Human Rights Commission. All in all, I can recommend to anyone that is up for a challenge and wants to expand on their intercultural and hard skills to apply for in internship at the Women's Platform.