Ewoud ter Meer and Jeroen van Kesteren from Nyenrode Business University go into the field in Rwanda, while Tim van der Grift from the University of Gent goes to Jordan
Ewoud and Jeroen will be working together until the end of November in Rwanda. They will be doing an internship at one of our partner organizations, YES Rwanda (http://www.yesrwanda.org/home.php). YES Rwanda is an NGO concerned with local youth employment systems which has, at its very core, the mission of stimulating and capacitating young people for the creation of entrepreneurial self-employment. The two Dutch students will focus their research on how micro financing for small and medium enterprises can be improved in Rwanda so that YES becomes more attainable to the country’s youth. We are very enthused about having the students work with one of our core members and are eager to hear about how everything is coming along for them.
Tim van der Grift is currently interning in Jordan at the Masar Center, an NGO active on issues of the environment, media, democracy and human rights. Tim’s research will be focused on mapping out conductive environments for youth entrepreneurship and social innovation in Jordan’s informal economy of the city of Amman. He will be on the field until January and we are very excited to see the results of his research and experience.
We will be keeping track of the students and will also encourage them to share their progress with us a bit further into their journey. The blog should be updated with news from Ewoud, Jeroen and Tim sometime in the next few weeks: stay tuned!
