WHERE THE GOSPEL MEETS REFUGEES & IMMIGRANTS
Through this internship, learn how Christianity and immigration intersect.
By selecting this service site, you will:
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Get hands on cross-cultural experience
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Serve refugee families and children
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Develop your skills in a real-world environment
ABOUT HOPE PLACE
Hope Place is a trauma-informed community center working under the non-profit organization, Hope Collaborative. Hope Place serves the specific needs of the refugees, immigrants, and residents of the Beechmont neighborhood and South Louisville. This neighborhood is impoverished, with the median household income 30% below the city average, and the neighborhood schools are struggling to meet residents’ needs. Within a 3-block radius of the Hope Place facility, there are over 100 languages spoken by residents of their neighborhood. There are large communities of immigrants and refugees from Somalia, Iraq, East Africa, Cuba, Central America, Vietnam, Nepal, Myanmar, and the Republic of Congo. Hope Place provides trauma-sensitive programs for adults, children, and families from all over the world. Their mission is through purposeful relationships, we love children and families to inspire hope.
YOUR INTERNSHIP ROLE
Year-long interns will serve refugees, immigrants, and community members by helping with adult ESL classes and childcare for toddlers and preschool age children, planning and participating in neighborhood outreach, assisting with Hope Place’s after school program, assisting with mission teams, and helping with administrative tasks like marketing, filing, organizing, and fundraising.
Summer interns will have the opportunity to serve families through providing a camp-like experience for the children in the culturally diverse community throughout the summer.
DURING THIS INTERNSHIP, YOU WILL:
- Summer Interns will assist with mission teams.
- Summer Interns will assist in an Elementary classroom, leading or assisting students in activities or lessons.
- Summer Interns will serve at outreach events.
- Summer Interns will assist with administrative tasks such as organizing materials, classrooms, mailing out information, and planning.
- Year Long Interns will have the additional opportunity to help with adult ESL classes (or with childcare during ESL classes)
- Year Long Interns will serve and organize food and meals for Dare to Care Kids’ Cafe
- Year Long Interns will assist in marketing, fundraising, and planning for giving events
- Year Long Interns will help with the planning of outreach events (Halloween, block parties, etc)
THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT FOR YOU IF:
- You have a growth mindset and are willing to learn
- You love working with young children 2-12 years old
- You have a heart for cross-cultural ministry — specifically to refugees and immigrants
- You are highly flexible — you deal with change well
- You are relational
- You are a self-starter — you see tasks that need to be done and take initiative
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