• To contribute to smoothing the transition of the youth from college into the labor market, by narrowing the skills gap. Most new college graduates lack the skills employers need, especially soft skills like professionalism, leadership and effective communication.

• Develop a skills pool for the upcoming civil society groups to draw from when seeking employees as a contribution to the overall CSOs’ strengthening.
• Develop future CSO leaders through early exposure to human rights approaches in addressing the various societal problems that we confront routinely.

• To foster internal leadership skills development among our current employees. As current employees mentor and supervise interns, they gain valuable leadership skills and develop a strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability. This provides great training opportunity for employees who will eventually occupy management positions.
• To harness the knowledge, creativity and experience of the youthful interns for our own internal learning and strategic reflection. Our interns are involved in brainstorming sessions to bring their perspectives to bear on the organization’s framing of the problems we seek to solve.

Interns

We encourage applications from skilled and motivated young people to serve as interns. We are looking for interns who are committed, hard-working, positive, open-minded, reflective and willing to learn.

We seek to find a balance between Kenyan interns and those from other countries. We look for a diversity of interests, backgrounds and experiences. At any one time we expect to host between one and four interns, depending on internal need.

Admission into this program is competitive, open and transparent. Members of disadvantaged groups are particularly encouraged to participate.