WAO ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - Women's Aid Organisation

No Name From Period
11 Alexandrine Cardine Dube AFS Canada July 09 – Dec 09
12 Philip Kauffman AFS Germany Aug 09 – Aug 2010
3.1 How did the interns contribute
Ariane Lejeune de Schiervel was an intern who came to us through the Antarabudaya
Programme, a student exchange programme that provides foreign students an insight into
Malaysian lifestyle and culture. Ariane opted to work with us to learn about WAO’s work and
services. Besides being absorbed into the projects department, Ariane was also responsible in
changing the design of our WAO website.
Ariane also worked on an internship Powerpoint presentation which was designed by us and put
together by Brittany Corsiato . This presentation was created to familiarise would-be interns on
what to expect during their time with us.
Madeline Gribbon had come to us from Oregon and worked at the WAO Child Care Centre.
Maddy, as she was fondly known, initiated the “Letters to America” pen pal project with
another NGO based in Oregon called ‘Womanspace’, for the children at CCC. She helped the
children with the initial process of the pen pal project by getting the aerogrammes needed for
the letter writing. The “Letters to America” project is still currently continuing at the CCC.
The WAO newsletters are one way of us reaching out to the public and our members on the
work and services we provide for the mothers and their children. We have been fortunate that
our interns contributed greatly to the publication of our newsletters in 2009.
WAO received our very first male intern at the end of 2009 – Philipp Kauffman, who came to us
under the Antarabudaya (AFS) programme. He requested to work with children and soon found
his niche with the CCC and was adored by everyone. He is always fondly known as “abang” or
“annai” (in Tamil) by the children and has done very well as a male role model for the older
children. Philipp is here for 11 months and will complete his internship in August 2010.
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