Since 2004, All Out Africa Foundation has developed Six Neighborhood Care Points (NCP’s). For more than 1,000 kids these NCP’s have set a solid foundation for their education and allowed them to speed past their peers once they reached primary school age, and beyond. It has been an amazing journey to watch and be a part of.

As our NCP’s continue to expand their reach and help even more vulnerable children and families, we need to stop and evaluate our successes and our challenges. This is why this year we are calling for special interns to be a part of our Early Childhood Education Internship.

This internship will help us develop and implement a series of evaluation tools to add to our NCP’s. This will help us gage how we are doing, how our kids are learning, how our teachers are teaching and even beyond, tracking our students throughout their studies. If you want to be a part of our NCP history, as well as the foundation of hundreds of kids education, then we encourage you to apply for this unique opportunity!

For more information download our Early Childhood Education Project Brief here: Early Childhood Education Internship Project Overview

If this looks like an internship that you would like to be a part of, email us at bookings@alloutafrica.com with a little bit more about you along with your CV. We would love to meet you and get started!

Please note that this is internship is a PAID experience, in which participates pay a fee to participate. Fee includes cost of accommodation, 3 meals a day and All Out Africa Staff support from qualified personnel.

There are many community members we work with who are seeking a way to empower themselves. We are targeting these people, and want to provide them and their great ideas with help, funding, and training to give them the skills they need to succeed. This will enable them to secure a sustainable future for themselves through small-scale entrepreneurship. We hope this kind of initiative will create a ripple of change, that will stem from the entrepreneur and spread through their families and communities as a source of inspiration.

In July of this year (2018) we will complete our first loan cycle. We have a lot to learn from this initial loan reimbursement, and we need to develop a plan for future loans based on this pilot so our future entrepreneurs are getting the best support from our Foundation to find success.

If you have an interest in Micro-Finance or Marketing for small businesses, we are looking for people like you to help us kick start this project! If you are interested, please email bookings@alloutafrica.com, tell us a little bit about yourself and include your CV.

We can’t wait to change the world with you!

For more information about this internship download the project brief here! Micro Finance Pilot & Development Project Brief

Please note that this is internship is a PAID experience, in which participates pay a fee to participate. Fee includes cost of accommodation, 3 meals a day and All Out Africa Staff support from qualified personnel.

In Southern Africa, this “box” is very different, which is why we have designed an internship to give Marketing and Business interns a new perspective. This internship started in our South Africa location, working in collaboration with the Hout Bay Partnership as a way to help local entrepreneurs in the townships boost their businesses and create an income for themselves and their families. It was extremely successful, but we found ourselves unable to keep up with demand!

This gave us an opportunity to open the project in a new location, Eswatini. The Kingdom of Eswatini serves as a prime location for this project with over 40% of the population living below the poverty line, the ability to “think outside the box” is a huge asset for local people who are trying to make a living. Starting a business is sometimes the best means to an end, however challenges are also a factor—and in this part of the world there is no such thing as a simple solution. Swazi entrepreneurs we work with may not have any business training, they may not have a smart phone, or understand how to calculate profit. By partnering up our interns with these dedicated business owners, large and small, we create amazingly impactful collaborations for both parties.

“Working together with the people here thought me a lot about different ways of starting and growing a business from zero on the most creative ways with only little to no tools. With that as foundation, we were able to apply our knowledge in business administration to streamline their businesses, in order to help them understand their businesses better, make them more profitable, help them grow or simply support them in executing the ideas they already had. “ Alexander Rhinnes (Business Development Intern)

As an intern on any of our projects, we carefully consider your unique expertise, and pair you with a partner that will allow you to not only teach, but also expand upon your own skills, so you too can grow. This means as a Business Development and Product Design intern you could be working with our own All Out Africa Foundation assisting in micro finance projects, or be partnered with a basket weaver working out of a market stall, or even an internationally recognized company who is already exporting products.

“In this part of the world, different practices will determine the success of this project. What a challenge it was, changing our mind set into a completely different one. Adjusting rapidly, acting quickly, and creating thoroughly. Little did we know that it would result in one of our most exciting tasks of our young, but still challenging lives.” – Kai Vlastra (Micro finance Intern)

This internship has also led to new, exciting relationships for the AOA team, with the collaboration of a local fair trade organization. SWIFT works with Swazi Entrepreneurs to provide training, trade linkages and advocacy of fair trade for their products. They currently work with over 50 local business owners, of all sizes, throughout Eswatini. We have recently teamed up to provide their members with additional support by linking them with some of our interns. In the last year, our interns have been involved in assisting with product development, brand development, book-keeping, marketing strategy and Human Resource consultancy- just to name a few.

“…we also collaborated with SWIFT to make our work more even sustainable. We created templates for business lessons in marketing, bookkeeping, consumer-minded business development, innovation and so on. Templates were discussed, tested, improved, discussed once more, compared and improved even further.” -Melissa De Kant (Business & Development Intern)

In whatever AOA undertakes, sustainability is our overall goal. This is why we accept interns on this project who are self-starters, driven and have the ability to be a partner as a team player. Interns have a flexible schedule, and have the opportunity to develop their own outcomes, decide on their goals with their partner and design a strategy to achieve them. At each step, the collaboration is key.

If you are looking for a challenge to further your career, boost your CV or would just like to experience business on the other side of the world, we would love to see if we could partner with you! To be considered contact us at bookings@alloutafrica.com and send us your CV!