SAF develops the leadership of college students from diverse backgrounds, giving them the opportunity to work directly with farmworkers in the Carolinas. Each year, SAF trains approximately 25 students on issues that farmworkers face, and places them to work full-time with migrant education programs, legal aid offices, rural health clinics, community-based organizations, and farmworker unions. SAF interns increase the capacity of the organizations they work with by outreaching to over 5,000 farmworkers & their families each summer.
Duration: 5 months (April - August)
Application due November 17
Eligibility
- Align with SAF mission and vision
- Able to contribute towards intern cost (please contact program staff if this is a limitation)
- Be able to have a supervisor interact with an intern on a regular basis
- Organizational work conducted in North Carolina or South Carolina (virtual placement permitted)
- Be able to provide 8-9 weeks (approximately 2 months) of full time work
Benefits
- Increase capacity to reach yearly goals
- New perspectives
- Potential employee after summer internship concludes
- Connection with other organizations
- Full SAF support
- SAF does all the recruiting and provides some trainings prior to summer starting
Expectations
Important dates
- October 2Sponsor application opens
- November 17 Application deadline
- October 25Sponsor info session
- November 20 -22 Set up sponsor interviews
- November 27 - December 1 Sponsor interviews
- December 5Sponsor selection
- December 8Sponsors notified of selection
- December 11 - January 12Notified of acceptance
Contact
Testimonial
"Working with students and interns is one of my favorite parts of my job! Having the ITF interns for this summer helped El Pueblo reach and provide support to hundreds of farmworkers for the first time in recent years. We would not have been able to do it without them."
