Recent internships have included positions as international marketing assistants, assistant auditors, international patent assistants, computer programmers and Web developers. Interns must provide private health insurance. Interns will conduct research, maintain the information system and write summaries and letters. Applicants must be undergraduate students. The exchanges are supported and monitored by the United Nations.
Some training is required prior to departure.
Candidates should be enrolled in or recent graduates of programs that focus on environmental studies or ecology and should be interested in tropical research. Applicants should be residents of the United States or Canada and should be 21 years old. The Guatemala Accompaniment Project places trained human rights accompaniers and interns in returned villages or communities of displaced people. The intern will monitor the human rights conditions, strengthening the community-to community bond. The intern's presence also provides security in areas where people have been subjected to brutal repression.