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Summer Media Internship

Posted by on February 24th, 2011

Number of Open Positions: 1

Internship Period: We are looking for a media intern throughout the year

Job Description:

The Panigram Resort summer internship is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in a foreign culture and get hands-on experience developing a resort from the ground-up. Your office will be the Panigram project site, located in the beautiful Jessore District of southern Bangladesh. Our past interns have designed and built pavilions, researched alternative energy, and taught English to local school children. We are looking for intrepid, adventurous students who are not afraid to take initiative. Because the conditions at Panigram can be both physically and mentally challenging, we want to hire students who can easily adapt to different cultures and can handle a camping-type of environment (the accommodations in Jessore are very basic.)

The media intern will be responsible for documenting the design and construction progress and the internship experience through photography, blogging, and video. This intern will need to prepare a blog entry (with photos) and a small 5-10 minute video clip each week to post on our website. The media intern will also be responsible for building up our social networking presence.

Qualifications:

Sophomore, Junior, and Seniors majoring in journalism, communications, or media are invited to apply. Must have experience with videography and video editing. The intern should also have excellent writing skills and experience with photography. Knowledge of various social media sites (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc. is also essential.)

Other:

Interns will be responsible for providing their own transportation to and from Bangladesh. Housing, food, and transportation within Bangladesh will be provided along with a small stipend for incidental expenses.

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Movie Night in the Village!

Posted by on February 2nd, 2011

I decided to initiate a movie night in the village for a variety of reasons. First, it is a fun way to start teaching the people in the area (particularly the kids) English, as all of our movies will be English-language films. Second, it creates a great venue for broadcasting some of the public health messages that Panigram wants to disseminate to the community. And finally, it provides us with an opportunity to better connect with the people in the neighborhood.

I assigned our Social Program Coordinator, Josie, the task of making movie night happen. It wasn’t an easy assignment because there is no power in our area and I had no idea how to set up, much less create, a large, outdoor movie theater. I still don’t know how she did it, but Josie managed to acquire and test all of the equipment that we needed, including a small generator!

Because improving the public health is one of Panigram’s prime social initiatives, we decided to show a small film on the importance of hand washing at the beginning of the movie. Josie wrote, produced, filmed, and edited the clip. She also created a small clip with some vocabulary from the movie in English and Bangla.

As our first movie night came, many people in the community came to watch us set up in the school yard we arranged to use as our outdoor movie theater. Having never seen the projector in action, I was a bit nervous during the setup process, but Bipul and Josie seemed to know what they were doing as they hooked up the appropriate devices and cables.

Josie Vertz sets up the projector for Panigram's first movie night.


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