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Internship Placement and Training

The internship’s initial plan is to place 20 interns per cohort in each district for a 4-month internship to be taught SCORE’s leadership and civic engagement curriculum. Prior to the internship and over the course of the internship, the youth are involved in training activities that are conducted by the Training Facilitators for the respective district. Our potential partners include a mix of government, civil society organizations, community-based organizations, international development organizations, and/or private businesses.

 

WHAT DOES THE INTERNSHIP ENTAIL?

SCORE Youth Activity supports the network and elevates outstanding young leaders from across key communities in Sri Lanka to amplify the impact of their work and inspire civic innovation. The objective of this project is that prospects for sustainable and inclusive peace in Sri Lanka are strengthened because individuals, communities, and institutions have developed increased resilience to socio-economic shocks and stressors through positively transformed relationships and a shared vision of a cohesive identity that embraces the plurality of Sri Lanka’s diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic groups. 

After the successful completion of the first phase – the district bootcamps in the month of November, 280 interns from 14 districts have been placed into internships for 4 months of the period in over 140 host organisations in the respective district. 

The internship helps to build youth’s civic engagement skills through training which is happening every Friday with the facilitation of the training facilitators and internship program that culminates youth-led projects; and it strengthens institutional capacity by strengthening structures and systems for engaging youth as leaders in government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private businesses. Through this activity, the youth will be able to increase opportunities for youth to exercise leadership and responsible citizenship, making the vision of the project more reliable and durable.