Roots Interns
Why choose Roots Interns?
Roots Interns offers academic internships with grassroots projects worldwide to anyone looking for a program that balances meaningful work and valuable learning. With the help of our highly skilled and experienced team, you will be matched with the organization that best fits your internship goals and personal passions. Interning with these innovative organizations allows you to gain invaluable...
Roots Interns offers academic internships with grassroots projects worldwide to anyone looking for a program that balances meaningful work and valuable learning. With the help of our highly skilled and experienced team, you will be matched with the organization that best fits your internship goals and personal passions. Interning with these innovative organizations allows you to gain invaluable work experience, helping to expand your skills in a real-world setting. At the same time, you get to contribute to the important work happening at a grassroots level; a beautiful offshoot of mutual growth. By working directly with decision-makers and getting to implement projects to see the outcome of your work, you'll leave your internship having practical knowledge you can't get in a typical co...
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My dream internship!
by: Amanda Drobek - United StatesProgram: Community Development Internship in MalawiMy internship in Malawi was truly a life-changing experience (as cheesy as that sounds). I recently graduated with a degree in Marketing/International Business and I wanted to apply my skills in the real-world, while making a difference. This is exactly what I got to do. Using my academic knowledge, I was able to work on a variety of projects, take ownership of my tasks, and get involved wherever I wanted to gain insights in the organization. It was inspiring to see the impact my daily work had ...
Urban farming cape town
by: sarahvProgram: Urban Farming Internship in Cape Town, South AfricaI worked for two months at urban harvest Cape Town. I’ve learned a lot from this experience, about urban greening, but also the logistics and the whole process of installing food gardens. However, this internship lacked a bit of guidance on the workplace, and I would say it is more of a spring-summer internship (I was there from june-september, which is winter in Cape Town and the rain impacted my tasks). This internship is perfect for people who are enrolled in a food sustainability programm...
An experience you don’t want to miss out on!
by: EstelleProgram: Yoga Internship in Cape Town, South AfricaI had an amazing time at Projekt Ubuntu! There was a variety of tasks and I have never had such a great work environment. Even though some days have been long and exhausting, every time I still had a smile on my face when I got home because it was just incredible to see what is being achieved at the project and to see the kids smile.
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Marleen Lammers
Interviewed in 2020
Although she started her career as a journalist in The Netherlands, Marleen Lammer was drawn to Zambia about 15 years ago. Throughout southern Africa,...
Marleen Lammers
Interviewed in 2020
What inspired you to travel abroad?
We founded Roots Interns because we saw an opportunity to match skilled interns with grassroots organisations; a mission that provides both unique internships for students around the world, and hugely valuable support to small nonprofits doing important work. Roots Interns grew organically within Greenpop, an environmental organisation based in Cape Town that I was part of for many years. International interns were a vital part of Greenpop from the start, and undoubtedly helped make the projects what they are today. Seeing how much Greenpop benefited from having interns on board, and how valuable the learning experience was for the interns drove us to launch Roots Interns; so that we could host a larger amount of interns and support more important causes.
Talitha van der Waerden
Interviewed in 2020
Talitha has worked as a tour leader in the Middle East, as a communications consultant, and a project manager developing recruitment and change manage...
Talitha van der Waerden
Interviewed in 2020
What inspired you to travel abroad?
I was inspired by the opportunity of being able to help other people have a similarly good experience as the one I had when coming to South Africa for a skills-based volunteering experience. And it's great to be able to help our non profit partners grow and develop by sending them valuable interns.
Laura Penninga
Participated in 2019
Laura is 18-years-old and from the Netherlands. She’s in her third year of the Bachelor of International Communication in Groningen, and is spending t...
Laura Penninga
Participated in 2019
I've always wanted to go abroad. I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands, with not much to see and not much to do (except for staring at the horizon, which is quite far away as the Netherlands is extremely flat).
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