GFDD/FUNGLODE launched Interndom: Internships in Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 8, 2006.

Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), with the collaboration of the Interamerican University (UNIBE for its Spanish initials), and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (SEESCyT for its Spanish initials), among other partners, launched Interndom: Internships in Dominican Republic, at FUNGLODE Auditorium in Santo Domingo, March 8, 2006.

During the event, GFDD Executive Director, Natasha Despotovic, formally presented the program to a wide audience of authorities in education, NGOs and education organizations representatives, and distinguished entrepreneurs. Alicia Alonzo, Interndom coordinator, explained the main purposes and details of the Program.
Interndom is an internship program in the Dominican Republic, in which students from any part of the world will have the opportunity to achieve professional experience in a Dominican organization related to their field of study. Interns will also have the opportunity to improve their Spanish skills while they enroll in an intensive course at a local university. Participants in the Interndom program will be able to co-validate and transfer credits to their school back home, and, by taking the Spanish course, will have the possibility to obtain the DELE (Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language), the official accreditation of the Spanish language fluency degree. A second phase of the project will allow Dominican students to do an internship abroad and improve their foreign language skills.

Other partners of GFDD/FUNGLODE in this first edition of Interndom are the Interamerican University (UNIBE), the Americas Technological Institute (ITLA), Centro León, Grupo Punta Cana, the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants (ASONAHORES), Community Development Foundation (FUDECO), the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR), Ofinet, Publicis, Hogar Villa Bendición, among others.

Between eight and twelve senior students from the United States and Canada will participate in the first edition of Interndom, improving their Spanish skills while involving themselves in 6-to-12 week internships in the collaborating Dominican organizations.
This program is part of GFDD commitment on fostering exchange and collaboration across nations.

For more information about Interndom, please contact Mrs. Alicia Alonzo
Tel. 212.751.5000
Fax. 212.751.7000
Organizations interested in collaborating with Interndom, please contact Alicia Alonzo or Catherine Florentino.
http://www.globalfoundationdd.org/frameset_projects.html