Summer Internship for Desi Youth
Organize for a Better School!
Organize for Immigrant Rights in your Community!
Build your Leadership!
Get Paid!
Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) Youth Power! is looking for Desi youth in 9th/10th grade for a Youth Social Justice Organizing Institute 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 11th to August 23rd, 2013
- 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: FRIDAY June 28st, 2013
If you want to apply to be a YouthPower! Intern this summer, please answer the following questions:
Name:
School and Grade (If you are now in school):
Full Home Address:
Telephone Number:
Email address:
Please keep your answers to 4-5 sentences each:
- 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?
Please email your application to roksana@drumnyc.org
Or mail your completed application to:
DRUM Youth Power!
72-18 Roosevelt Avenue 2nd floor Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Call Roksana with any questions at (718) 205-3036