Internship

Peace fellows in Iowa

AFSC Iowa Peace Fellows visit at Friends House during an orientation gathering.

By Kathleen McQuillen, AFSC Iowa Program Coordinator

They came to the Friends House to learn but, as we should have expected, they taught and they inspired.

Recently three Central College students serving as AFSC Iowa Peace Fellows participated in a day-long orientation about AFSC, peace building, and change making.

Annie Frundle in KC

Annie Frundle is an intern with AFSC in Kansas City.

Annie Frundle, an Avila University social work student, began working half-time with ASFC Kansas City as a social work intern in August. Annie has been learning about AFSC's work and assisted with preparations for the Crossroads peace festival on October 1.

Her placement requires both “macro” experiences (e.g. policy chance, organizing, public education, advocacy) and “micro” experiences (e.g. social work counseling, identification of needed services, etc.)

At the peace festival, Jon Krieg asked Annie why she's interning with AFSC.

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By Sarah Rutherford

It’s early on Tuesday morning, and dozens of Latino men are gathered outside of the Home Depot on Rhode Island Avenue.

A pickup truck slows to a stop in the parking lot, and the men swarm around it, negotiating frantically with the driver. The driver motions for two of them to get in and the men speed away. The rest shuffle back to the shade of the trees and wait for the next truck to appear.

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AFSC interns organized Paint for Peace in Greensboro, Spring 2010.

As part of its committment to seeing peace in Afghanistan and the Middle East, AFSC launched the Paint for Peace project in the Spring of 2010.  In Greensboro, Guilford College interns from the Center for Principled Problem Solving helped put together four murals for the national project.  The interns prepared four panels.  The majority of the painting took place at Guilford College during our community paint day.