A Voice For the Voiceless
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.
The Impact of Service
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Training and Security
AP provides three days of specialized training in Washington prior to deployment (below). This helps new Fellows become acquainted with all aspects of AP’s work, their host organization, and AP’s security policy – while at the same time learning new skills.
Training manual: An updated training manual is posted before training. This should be read carefully in advance. Each Fellow is given a CD, for use in the field.
Ensuring security: Many Fellows are deployed to countries that are emerging from crisis and this can pose security concerns. AP’s security policy was redrafted and tightened in 2008. Some countries are off-limits (Gaza, North Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq). Others (DRC) are assessed closer to the time of deployment. AP requires all Fellows to join AP’s insurance policy and links each Fellow with a “security partner” with a permanent presence in the country. Fellows are also required to sign a security waiver prior to departure.
Round the clock service: AP staff in Washington are on call around the clock to privide support and advice. We require that all Fellows have a mobile phone and can be contacted at all times.
Evaluation: AP Fellows are asked to produce two evaluations following the spring training and within two weeks of returning home after the Fellowship. The forms are updated each spring and will be posted online before the 2011 training.
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“It was exhilarating, frustrating, inspiring, and tiring. And though it was oftentimes not what I had anticipated my time would look like, it became something even more powerful than I thought was possible."
Devin Greenleaf on his fellowship with the Jagaran Media Center in Nepal (2007). Back