TRU Social Work student Maija Lewis has been selected for a World University Service of Canada (WUSC) three-month internship to Hanoi, Vietnam starting January 2006.

Lewiss internship, which comes with a $5,000 contribution from WUSC, will centre around the development of a university field school.

During the internship Lewis will assist the WUSC Director in Vietnam responsible for the development of the field school, including potential themes and promotional materials for marketing the program to Canadian university students. Lewis will also assist in the development of a program for a ten-day Canadian university program development mission to Vietnam.

TRU Study Abroad Manager, Geoff Wilmshurst, was very pleased that WUSC had chosen TRU for this internship project.

“Maija Lewis is an outstanding candidate for this program and will be a wonderful representative of TRU.”

He also noted that WUSC had specifically requested TRU to source a student intern for this project. It is expected that TRU will develop additional joint education projects in Vietnam in collaboration with WUSC, which has had an office in the country since 1996.

Ms. Lewis has just left for a meeting in Senegal, West Africa, called the Globalization of Solidarity, sponsored by WUSC and Quebec-based NGO, CECI.

For more information, please contact Geoff Wilmshurst at (250) 371-5888 or by email.