Good news! I found out yesterday evening that I was successful in my application for a work-based placement in conjunction with my dissertation! I will be working with ASAP (A Self-Help Assistance Program) in southern Malawi evaluating the social impact of a recently completed village savings and loans scheme. And I even got a grant to cover my travel costs! A step in the right direction in terms of someday actually getting paid to work! The internship should run from mid-April until mid to late-June at which point I will return to Edinburgh to write my dissertation on the subject of the work I did.
Malawi is a small sliver of a country in south eastern Africa landlocked between Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. It is called 'the warm heart of Africa' because the people there are said to be the nicest on the continent. I have heard only good things about Malawi since I began the application process so I am pretty excited. And it will be WARM and SUNNY there! I think I am just as excited about summer weather as I am to actually be doing real work! I was really hoping that it would all work out for me to do this internship (so much so that I bought a Malawi travel guide in advance) so I am feeling super relieved and happy to finally know what my next few months will look like.
Malawi is a small sliver of a country in south eastern Africa landlocked between Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. It is called 'the warm heart of Africa' because the people there are said to be the nicest on the continent. I have heard only good things about Malawi since I began the application process so I am pretty excited. And it will be WARM and SUNNY there! I think I am just as excited about summer weather as I am to actually be doing real work! I was really hoping that it would all work out for me to do this internship (so much so that I bought a Malawi travel guide in advance) so I am feeling super relieved and happy to finally know what my next few months will look like.
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