Do you dream of working with indigent women in the Bolivian highlands? Saving a river in Tanzania? Finding opportunities like these will soon become easier when the new, temporarily-named International Alternative Job Bank becomes available at the Undergraduate Career Services (UCS).
According to Liza Grandia, TC '96, a group of approximately 30 students is working with a staff member of UCS to compile a listing of international non-profit organizations. Grandia hopes to help Yalies choose an alternative to the "corporate sell out" route that she sees many of her peers choosing. "Right now there are very few resources at UCS for people interested in this kind of work," Grandia said. She added that when she was planning to take time off and work overseas, it took over a year to receive responses from many of the organizations to which she had written.
The group is currently preparing to send a mass-mailing to grass-roots organizations throughout the world, and then to use the information they receive to compile a database that can be accessed at UCS and on the World Wide Web.
-- Fiona Havers
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