Summer Internship for South Asian Youth
Summer Internship for Desi Youth
Click here for YP! Summer Application 2014
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- Organize for Better Schools
- Organize for Immigrant Rights in your community
- Build your Leadership
- Get Paid!
DRUM (South Asian Organizing Center) Youth Power! is looking for Desi Youth ages 14-21 (9th & 10th graders will be prioritized) for a leadership development program this summer.
Applicants must be of South Asian origin: Afghanistani, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Guyanese, Indian, Nepali, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Trinidadian, or from the South Asian diaspora
- 6 week Internship: July 9th to August 22nd, 2014 (2-3 days a week)
- Learn how to organize and fight for STUDENT, IMMIGRANT and WORKER RIGHTS
- Work on a campaign with other high school students to decrease the number of Suspensions and Arrests in high schools
- Stipend for completion of program
DEADLINE For Applications: Monday June 23rd, 2014
DRUM YouthPower! 2014 Summer Internship Application
If you want to apply to be a YouthPower! Intern this summer, please answer the following questions & email to the following email: rishi@drumnyc.org
Please keep your answers to 4-5 sentences each.
Type/write your answers on a separate piece of paper/email:
Name:
School and Grade (If you are now in school):
Full Home Address:
Telephone Number:
Email address:
- What are your parents’ occupations? What is your family’s annual income? How many people live in your household?
- What are some issues/ problems faced by people in your community that you would like to change? How would you try to make these changes?
- Briefly describe a personal experience you have had where you were faced with racism, sexism, poverty, state violence, or homophobia? How did you try to change the situation?
- How do you see police impacting your school and community?
- Does your immigration status make it hard for you to get an education, or do you fear the reporting of your immigration status by school officials? Please explain.
- What does justice mean to you?
- Many students are involved in fundraising or recruiting in their school clubs or in other organizations that they are members of.
- Imagine you had to raise $500 in one month. How would you do this? Give any examples of when you have raised money in your school or community.
- Imagine you had to bring in 2 new members to your school club or organization for an event next week. What would you do? Give any examples/experience you have.