Meet This Year’s Micro-Internship Programme Host Organisations!
Learning Connected will continue to support SOAS students with working flexibly for global social enterprises this year through participating in remote micro-internships. Find out more about our new cohort of host organisations.
Asikana Network Limited
Asikana Network is a young women’s network that was created with the vision of creating a space for all women and girls in the Tech field. It was formed in 2013 in Kabulonga, Zambia. The network is composed of over 200 active Tech trainer women members with a growing learner base of 25,000. By encouraging women and girls to participate in Tech based careers and courses, they hope to create a community of confident and capable women in the Tech field. Their target groups include high school pupils, university or college students, as well as young women working or seeking participation in ICT related fields. Some of their activities include networking meetups, training sessions in web development, basic computer and digital literacy, games, as well as one-to-one mentoring for women who are interested in Technology.
Find out more here: https://www.asikananetwork.org/
Assorted Trends Africa
Assorted Trends Africa is a not for profit social enterprise in Kayunga, Uganda. Working with marginalised women and young people in rural Uganda, it aims to empower and encourage community transformation in health education, agriculture and entrepreneurial development. The organisation’s reach includes support of more than 200 rural women’s micro businesses, equipping and training more than 60 rural teenage and young mothers in vocational and business skills. The organisation’s latest sexual reproductive health ad rights schools programme has reached more than 1500 students in rural areas of Uganda.
Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/assortedtrendsafrica/about
Bramble Network
Bramble is an organisation that supports the physical, emotional, mental and social development of children living in rural and marginalised communities across Africa. Its base is in Ibadan Oyo state, Nigeria. Some of the network’s programmes include Brambox, a programme that supports children who live in remote communities with limited access to the Internet, and Bramble Learning Space, a creative learning space for children to learn based on their unique interests. Starting from a grassroots level, Bramble is creating a network and movement of local rural educators to change the learning space and environment in Nigeria. This network is further supported by research in various aspects of Education, from Early Childhood Education and Care to teacher training, learning models and methods.
Find out more here: https://bramblenetwork.org/
Lakshya Jeevan Jagriti
Lakshya Jeevan Jagriti (LJJ) is a not for profit organisation that supports individuals from a disadvantaged background to acquire skills and knowledge that will enable them to evolve personally and professionally. The organisation was created by a group of college students and their teacher from a distance learning college in 2009 in India. It started by focusing on sharing skills and knowledge on issues that interested the students, creating an open space for conversation. Nowadays, the organisation provides a variety of programmes, from women empowerment programmes, like Aao Sath Maa, to vocational training programmes, like I CAN, and the Personal Mastery Leadership Development for Corporate initiative.
Find out more here: https://www.meralakshya.org/
Mosul Space
Mosul Space is an innovation and tech hub based in Mosul, Iraq. It started in 2014 with the aim to promote entrepreneurship and technology among young men and women in order to develop the private sector and increase youth employment. Its current outreach includes 10,000 young men and women who participate in business incubation programmes, product development, makerspace activities, tech and business specialised training, as well as gain access to co-working areas and community activities. Some of its past events include, “Embedded Systems Design and Market Challenged Forum”, “Electronic Build Sessions” and “Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking Workshops”.
Find out more here: https://mosulspace.org/
Peace Crops (Agri-Life Association)
Peace Crops (Agri-Life Association) is a not for profit organisation that supports eco friendly agricultural development. It was created in 2014 in Bova II Village in Cameroon with the aim to support and carry out food security projects, empowerment workshops, and promote environmental conservation practices. Peace Crops works with orphanages, communities, schools, prisons and war-affected communities to create peaceful organic food gardens. Other initiatives include “Earth Rising Indigenous BONAVADA Forest Project”, “Food4All COVID-19 Community Emergency Intervention Program”, “Orphanage Garden COVID-19 Response Project”, “AGROPHAN (Agriculture for Orphanages)” and “BONAVADA Women Community Maize Project”.
Find out more here: https://www.peacecrops.org/
School Farms
School Farms is a not for profit organisation which aims to help address the growing burden of supplying highly nutritious, farm-produced crops, fruits and vegetables, to schools in Ghana. It was founded as a community-based organisation in 2013 in Accra, Ghana. Nowadays, School Farms applies an innovative community-supported model and works with schools in growing their own produce, while using the farms as experiential learning spaces. Some of School Farms’ programmes include “ATVET Skills Hub”, providing training, skills development and agriculture extension services to rural young people, “Food Bank”, storing and supplying highly nutritious school farm-produced crops, and “ATVET CBT”, a competency-based training curriculum equipping schoolchildren with agricultural entrepreneurial skills.
Find out more here: https://schoolfarms.org/
