Are you young and innovative? Do you have a passion for excellence and really want to affect your generation for good? If yes, this opportunity is for you.
With support from the Staying Alive Foundation UK, JAAIDS now has openings for four (4) youth volunteers to join its youth internship programme.
JAAIDS youth internship programme aims at creating opportunities for youths to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It identifies youths with interest and passion, and by placing them within a six-month internship based at JAAIDS offices in Lagos and Abuja, creates opportunities for young people to channel their energies to creative use and empower them with leadership skills to mobilize their communities in halting AIDS and addressing its impact.
Youth interns will assist programme staff in project implementation and perform other related tasks including interfacing with the organization’s stakeholders. They will be exposed to a variety of skills development and learning opportunities and will be able to grow themselves rapidly in many areas of HIV/AIDS interventions.
They will also be provided with small grants to implement two youth -focused projects during the period of their internship. They will serve for a period of six months to one year and will be paid a monthly stipend.
Interested young persons must possess the following:
1. Secondary school certificate with minimum of five credits including English language
2. Ability to communicate fluently in English
3. Must be smart, focused and energetic
4. Must be able to relate well with people
5. Must be aged between 16 and 25 years old by December 2007
6. Must have uninterrupted 6 months for the internship programme
Candidates must submit an essay (not more than 300 words) on the topic “My commitment to an HIV-free youth population“.
Applications giving full names, contact details (including telephone numbers) and showing evidence of fulfilling the criteria listed above may be submitted by email to: ogechi@nigeria-aids.org or hand delivered to:
Journalists Against AIDS(JAAIDS)Nigeria
JAAIDS Youth Volunteers Recruitment
44B Ijaye Road
(Behind Tastee Fried Chicken)
Ogba, Lagos.
Applications from Abuja should be sent to:
Journalists Against AIDS(JAAIDS)Nigeria
Civil Society House,
4 Jaba Close Off Dunukofia Street,
Area 11, Garki Abuja
Applications must be received on or before July 21, 2007
Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS)Nigeria is a media-based non-governmental organization working in the field of HIV/AIDS and development. JAAIDS is widely-recognized for its strategic media response to AIDS through innovative programming that contributes towards halting the spread of HIV and mitigate its impact.
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We should really be very careful about having unprotected sex, HIV/AIDS still does not have a cure as of this day. Who knows when this disease will be cured.