Canada Jeunesse
World Canada
Youth Monde

INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIPS

- Do you have practical experience or technical training in information technology? Are you interested
in working overseas in a developing country? Are you unemployed or underemployed? If you
answered yes to these questions then the NetCorps internship program could be for you!

NetCorps Canada International is a Youth Employment Strategy (YES) program. It offers exciting
internships in developing countries and in Canada, lasting approximately six months. There is a wide
range of work possibilities available to NetCorps interns.

This is a volunteer program. The participants’ expenses while on the program (food, lodging,
transportation, medical pocket money) are covered by Canada World Youth.

To qualify for the program you must:

- be between 19 and 25;

- bea Canadian citizen or Landed Immigrant;

- have formal education or training and/or experience in one of the many areas of information
technology. For example: Web page design and maintenance, networking, customised computer
programming, database or spreadsheet design, desktop publishing, cybermarketing, etc.;

- be currently unemployed or underemployed;

- possess the interpersonal and intercultural skills necessary to live and work effectively in another
culture, including a motivation for learning the host community language;

- have the capacity to fundraise ($1,000);

- pass the medical screening process.

Note: interns cannot have participated on any internship program financed by the Youth Employment
Strategy (YES).

Current Canada World Youth NetCorps programs available for B.C./Yukon youth include:

A 4 month program in Ecuador (April 25-August 29)

A 6 month program in Costa Rica (June 15-December 15)

A 6 month program, 3 months in one of the Atlantic provinces and 3 months in Kaliningrad, Russia
(June 15-December 15)

A 6 month program, 3 months in one of the Atlantic provinces and 3 months in Jamaica

(August 21-February 15)

A 5 month program, 2.5 months in Quebec and 2.5 months in Tunisia (September 1—February 20)
Please note: all dates are subject to change

For more information or an application: http://www.cwy-jcm.org/cybere.html
Canada World Youth, 604-732-5113, 1-800-889-6069, e-mail be@cwy-jcm.org
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