Our Internships and Volunteer Opportunities

All interns, researchers and volunteers are our honored guests. We welcome 2-5 international interns on a rolling basis, depending on projects and needs. All interns work with Senegalese partners, ensuring a cross-cultural exchange necessary to learn and work in Senegal. We often connect interns with our partner organizations, such as GENSEN and ANEV. See our online form to inquire about our available internships.

We offer four types of internships:
     1. Paid internships, which provide a living allowance.
     2. Volunteer internships, for people with skills and interests matching our needs.
     3. Project development internships, for students to develop their research projects.
     4. Research internships, for individual dissertation research.

Paid Internships
We currently do not have any paid internships available.
 

Volunteer Internships
(For willing workers with special skills and experience.)

• Office & public relations intern: provide translation (English <-> French), update the website and organization blogs, write press releases, develop a newsletter, create flyers, and provide general office support.
  

• English and TOEFL teacher. Small subsidy provided, if candidate has previous Senegal experience.
  
  

Project Development Internships
(For interns with certain skills. An exterior funding source to develop these projects is necessary. If EREV already has a project in your area some support may be available to the interns. See  for ecological technologies in which EREV is involved.)

Our support includes: on-going cultural orientation; introduction to experts and mentors, villages and villagers; wireless Internet access and work space; recruiting Senegalese partner interns as translators and as trainees who will continue the project after the departure of the international intern. The intern pays a modest stipend to cover the costs of the partner.

Finances: For students and recent graduates without previous experience in Africa or Senegal, fees depend on the duration of the visit. Fees cover:

• room, board and laundry in a homestay family in Dakar and village(s);
• travel expenses;
  
• cultural orientation;
  
• Senegalese partner and trainee, as needed to translate from English into French, and from French into local languages and to continue the intern's project if possible, following his/her departure. Not all foreign interns require Senegalese partners.
• For interns interested in staying for one to two months, the fee is $550/month.  For interns interested in staying for three months or longer, the fee is $350/month. Interns with previous experience in Senegal typically find and cover their own costs and arrangements. 

Research Internships
For people with ideas for projects, research, or thesis work they wish to develop with the EREV Institute's network or eco-villagers, and persons wishing to explore Senegal through service learning in villages or at EREV headquarters.

International and local students have collected masters and doctoral thesis data in eco-villages, on organic agriculture, urban and environmental planning, ICT and local governance...(and even on concepts of romantic love among Yoff's fisherwomen). Others have worked in program design and made lasting contributions to EREV's programs.

If you would like us to suggest an area both suitable for you and within the project areas of the EREV Institute,  please complete the online form so that we may best match your interest to our organization. (The information you provide is expressly used for the purpose of suggesting an appropriate fit.)

Finances: For students and recent graduates without previous experience in Africa or Senegal, fees depend on the duration of the visit.  Research covers the cost of room, board and laundry in a home stay family in Dakar and/or village(s), plus  cultural orientation, and possibly your Senegalese work partner. Via email, EREV typically interacts with the intern according to the degree that the intern's topic is important to EREV's mission. EREV provides information local cost information for interns to seek grants to cover their costs. If EREV has funded projects in the researcher's area, some internship/research support may be provided.

Researchers with previous experience in Senegal typically find and cover their own costs and arrangements.