In collaboration with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, DRCLAS will be offering an 8-week Summer Internship Program on Sustainable Development in Mexico during the summer of 2010.  Harvard College students will work alongside Mexican students on specific Sustainable Development projects in rural communities in southern and central Mexico.  Internship opportunities will vary from site to site. 

Further details will be available at the DRCLAS information session on summer opportunities in Latin America scheduled for December 4.  It is expected that complete information on application procedures and on the specific programs to be offered in 2010 will be available by the end of the fall term and that the application deadline will fall in late February.  Please watch for further updates!  

For information on several of the projects organized by the Tec de Monterrey in recent years, click on the project title below:

• >> Intercultural Learning and Permaculture Project - San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas
• >> Rural Public Health - Jesús del Monte / Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacán
• >> Developing a Cultural Tourism Industry - Cuentepec, Morelos 
• >> Micro-Enterprise Consulting in Medium Security Prison - Puebla, Puebla
  
• >> Environmental Management and Ecotourism - San Mateo Ozolco, Puebla
  

Upon arrival in Mexico, students will be given a one-week cultural orientation, co-organized by DRCLAS and the Tec de Monterrey, before they travel to one of the project sites. Each student will be paired with a Mexican student from the Tec, have a faculty supervisor from the Tec's local campuses, and live in student dormitories on campus.  Students may be required to enroll in one class with content relevant to their internship work.

For more information, please contact Hal Jones at 617-495-0755 or hmjones@fas.harvard.edu.