First Blog Post - Intro to internship place and learning goals
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This blog post something close to 7 weeks late. But never late than never, right.
I am half way through my internship. 6 weeks gone - 6 weeks left. But before the 2.half starts, I have 5 beautiful weeks of holiday to look forward to.
This means I finally have some time on my hands to write my first blog post for my second internship during my bachelor education in Global Nutrition and Health.
I am doing my internship in an NGO called GAME Denmark. GAME started in 2002, and a working to create social change through a focus on urban sports in vulnerable communities. The goal is to offer healthy leasure time options for kids and young people, mainly 1. and 2. generation immigrants. They use different approaches to catching their target group. The main one is their Playmaker Program. Here they educate young people (playmakers) from the neighborhoods they work in, how to set up different activities and practices like dancing, basketball, street football, parkour, etc. These playmakers are then instructed in setting up practices in the neighborhood (GAME Zone) they are affiliated to. This will most often be the neighborhood they themselves have grown up in or live in. This provides a lot of benefits in making the kids show up for and wanting to participate at practices, because they already might know or have seen the playmaker coming to set up the practice.
GAME holds 4 playmaker camps a year where the volunteer playmakers are trained in their specific sport or in “organizing”.
Apart from the Playmaker Program, GAME are working in an array of different ways and from different places. The main office is located on Enghavevej 82D in CPH, where the streetgame house StreetMekka also is situated. New divisions are in the process of being opened all over Denmark in Aalborg and Viborg and a new one already opened in Esbjerg. At the same time, GAME Lebanon is in the process of starting up, and the CEO of the organization has moved there to help the start-up process.
In short, GAME is an organization in progress. Things are happening both in a national and international perspective. My work with them will mainly concern the danish aspects.
My internship - Learning goals
My internship is divided into 2-part that will be more or less different in content.
The two parts are 6 weeks each, part 1 before summer holiday (month of July) and part 2 after summer, starting in the first week of August.
In my next post, I will provide descriptions of the two parts of my internship! - For now you get to look at my learning goals below. How I specifically already have achieved and plan to achieve them? I will let you know
