As many of you know this summer I will be spending ten weeks in Atlanta, Georgia as an intern for The Carter Center. I am thrilled at this opportunity and I couldn't be more excited to start my first day of orientation in one hour. I have dreamed about an opportunity like this since I was sixteen. It was then that I realized my passion for human rights and sub-Saharan Africa. At The Carter Center (TCC) I will be able to combine these two passions as I work on the Human Rights Program focused on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). As I know more about what I will be doing I will post so that you, as my readers, can know what we will be doing at TCC.
What I can tell you so far is that we are working on country-based programming in the DRC centered on villages affected by mining in the Southeast of the DRC. For those of you that are French speakers the research that is complied by grassroots, local, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the ground is found on the Congo Mines website, affiliated with TCC.
The only other interesting information I can tell you thus far is that I will be visiting Plains, Georgia sometime in June to see Jimmy Carter's peanut farm. And while I will be missing the annual peanut farm, I am looking forward to see President Carter in his "natural habitat."
