Internships: viewing all internships from Thailand

, 2012
Young boy showing off his piglet that his family raises for income. The business was started using seed funding from the Village Development Bank.

As the Malcolm Potts Intern, Dionne spent 10 weeks at the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. She helped develop a project proposal for new hospital based integrated rural development (Hospital BIRD) program that utilized the hospital as a community hub for income generation, education, and poverty alleviation.

, 2011
A talk with the leadership from many different rural communities to understand their economic and healthcare concerns.

Elise spent this summer with the organization Population and Community Development Association, which has been working to improve the health and economic status of Thailand’s rural populations since the late 1970s.