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Summer Fellowship
Paimol Martyrs’ Shrine
Paimol
,
Northern Uganda
041
Uganda
Website:
wipolomartyrs.org
Location Details
Description
The primary work for students is to design clean energy technology to improve cooking conditions and generate revenue for rural poor. Our Organization stands for technology innovations, applying educational and communication technologies to learning and preserving local cultural heritages for sustainable peace and development. The purpose of the Martyrs’ Shrine founded in 2004 is to apply the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love in living with different ethnicities through digital learning, marketing, and sporting. Ultimately, this will lead to peace and reconciliation. Two youths of northern Uganda’s Acholi ethnicity had been killed on this spot on account of their faith in 1918 and since their beatification in 2002 in Rome they have been revered as heroes and models of excellence in Faith, Hope and Love across cultures of Uganda and the world at large. You can learn more about the martyrs here. At the Shrine’s digital learning site, the intern will engage with selected teachers and learners to mutually learn and propose intercultural activities that bring our Acholi ethnic community to live in peace with our neighbouring Karimojong ethnic community.
Student Role
At our site the role and responsibility of students will be observing local people’s hard life conditions, local people’s poor means of livelihoods and proposing sustainable solutions to them. For example, students will observe/study how families struggle to secure adequate food for their members; how families might need to preserve food items in homes where there is neither grid nor clean drinking water. Students will also help teachers know the use of such educational technologies as smart phones, tablets and smart televisions to teach oneself to read and write one’s own and other peoples’ languages. There are two positions working with us during the summer. Students can focus on peacemaking efforts with our local ethnic communities or on technological and/or sustainable initiatives in the community.
Work Schedule
The students will work with local communities Monday through Friday (they take a break on Saturdays and Sundays). Our work schedule runs from 8:00am to 5:30pm with lunch break at 1:00pm. We have an after breakfast buzz (meeting) daily Monday to Friday. I want to know what each student is going to do during the day and where I will be of help. The after breakfast buzz is about one hour. Generally the students work on my compound but sometimes they may go out into local communities to interact with informants. Students have free time from 6:00pm to bed rest. On Saturday and Sunday, students are free to do their laundry or go visit neighboring mission stations with me.
Orientation
Our orientation consists of, by zoom, reading histories and cultures of the local people and expectations the students might have. We also offer students, upon arrival, basic language courses and customary practices to enable them to interact with communities around us. The students are shown around the house, living room, kitchen and laundry, Church etc. The breakfast buzz also serves to orient the students on a daily basis.
Housing Information
Students will live in the priests’ house taking all meals together. Each student has his or her bedroom with showers hot and cold, toilet and wardrobe and reading table. Each bed is dressed with mosquito net and some insect repellent that the student may use. A student may go into the kitchen to see or learn or show to cook a particular dish. Our kitchen staff is always introduced to the students so she knows them and can help in matters of food.
Start And End Dates
Eight consecutive weeks between May 28 and July 28