IIP, MANDELA WASHINGTON FELLOWSHIP COLLABORATION PROVIDES STUDENTS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES IN AFRICA

For hopeless romantics on campus, a dinner date for this Wednesday night – Valentine’s Day – is not the only deadline quickly approaching. This Sunday, Feb. 18 is the last day to apply for the International Internship Program’s (IIP) newest summer internship in Africa. The internship, a collaboration between IIP and 2017 UW–Madison Mandela Fellow Rebekah Awuah, will send up to two UW–Madison students to Accra, Ghana this summer to work with Business Day Ghana as international journalism interns. For IIP, a partnership of this kind was a long time coming. “Ghana was a location that we had been interested in developing internships for awhile,” IIP Advisor and Program Coordinator Carly Stingl said. “We know that the Mandela Fellows have a strong connection with UW after their summer here as well as great connections in their home countries. When I reached out to Rebekah she was immediately interested in the prospect of helping a UW student have a professional experience in Ghana.” Read the full story.