Kicking Off the Summer in Malawi!

This past week we officially kicked off our summer programming in Malawi. Our Coordinator Team arrived and setting up the WC house for Session 1 has been going really well! We’re excited to launch a new position this summer as part of our Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) program. Our Y2Y program brings high school volunteers from the U.S. to work with some of the younger kids at our target schools here in Malawi. Focus issues include malaria prevention, HIV awareness, environmental degradation.  On Thursday, we met with Malawian Secondary School students who are enrolled in an SAT prep class in Lilongwe. The students will take the SATs in the next few months and then start to apply to colleges; many were excited about studying in the United States! We talked with them about our new Field Intern position and they seemed really excited! Field Interns will be Secondary School Malawian students who work alongside our Y2Y volunteer teachers.

The Field Intern position will include many responsibilities, such as acting as a liaison between foreign volunteers and local Malawians, translating curriculum material, and participating in all other aspects of the WC program. The students were obviously excited to get to work with an organization like World Camp for a number of reasons. Aside from a great reference for college applications, they were all genuinely interested in the issues WC works on and connecting with foreign youth. It will be great to have such excited and young field staff working in our Y2Y program this summer!