The Advocacy Project (AP) is recruiting 12 Peace Fellows this summer to support community-based advocates in Nepal, Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Five Fellows will work in-country, and seven remotely. Iain Guest from AP will describe the opportunities for UMD students on February 22 at 12:00 pm EST.
The Advocacy Project (AP), based in Washington DC, has recruited over 500 graduate and undergraduate students to support our community-based partners since 2003. Over 60 were studying at UMD. Read blogs from past Fellows here.
AP is now inviting applications for 12 fellowships this summer. All fellowships will last ten weeks. Five Fellows will be deployed in-person to Nepal, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe to coordinate projects supported by AP. Another seven Fellows will support Fellows in the field remotely from the US. All fellowships will carry a stipend. Visit this page for information about each fellowship and how to apply.
In-person fellows will work with AP partners to:
- Empower girls in Zimbabwe through soap and education
- Help women in the informal settlements of Nairobi to compost; advocate for vaccinations; sell embroidery; and combat albinism
- Help pastoralists in Northern Kenya to end conflict and resist climate change
- Support persons with disability and survivors of conflict in Northern Uganda
- Support the Tharu people in Nepal by: a) Helping families of the disappeared market embroidery in Bardiya; b) Profiling community initiatives to commemorate the disappeared and c); Launching a start-up for dishwashers in Dang District.
Remote fellowships:
- Support River Gypsies in Bangladesh
- Support Peace Fellow and partners in Zimbabwe
- Support Peace Fellow and partners in Nairobi
- Support Peace Fellow and partner in Kenya, working with pastoralists
- Support Peace Fellow and partners in Uganda
- Support Peace Fellow and partners in Nepal
- Support the AP embroidery and quilting program.
Iain Guest founded AP in 2001 after many years of writing about and working with civil society in countries in conflict. He was a Geneva-based correspondent for the London-based Guardian and International Herald Tribune; authored a book on the disappearances in Argentina; fronted several BBC documentaries; served as spokesperson for the UNHCR operation in Cambodia (1992) and the UN humanitarian operation in Haiti (2004); served as a Senior Fellow at the US Institute of Peace; and conducted missions to Rwanda and Bosnia for the UN, USAID and UNHCR. Iain recently stepped down as an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, where he taught human rights.