The NGO racket
In a Jezebel thread discussing, inter alia, bad labor practices in the modeling industry, a commenter likens the lots-of-work-at-no-pay-for-wealthy-companies ethos to NGOs. The last paragraph raises in particular raises an interesting question about whether free internships are in an NGO's best interest:
Yeah, that's why there is the so-called "NGO racket." Don't know what you want to do after graduation? Get a job seeing the world! Life experience! Come help people!
"We have selected you for this. You should feel so priveleged to work for this esteemed NGO. All it will cost you is your flight here, your housing and food here, obviously your health insurance, your transportation to and from work...etc etc. But you're doing a good deed! Aren't you proud!?? We PICKED you!"
Free internships are total exploitation, and DO privilege the people who can afford to pay the 8,000 dollars or whatever for six months to do that, not necessarily the most qualified. It is really doing a disservice to qualified employees, and ultimately, perhaps to the NGO itself.
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My first international development experience was as an unpaid intern. After that, though, I always thought that if I wasn't useful enough for an NGO to actually pay me, then I didn't to be in the position.
I think that by using these kinds of internships as the primary start point for (eventual) paid employees, NGOs are limiting the pool of potential staff members to those who have other funding sources. You lose a lot of good talent that way.
On the other hand, putting people in the field soes cost money...I think about this a lot, I actually wrote about it once: http://damselsinsuccess.com/blogs/blog.aspx?id=223.
My first international development experience was as an unpaid intern. After that, though, I always thought that if I wasn't useful enough for an NGO to actually pay me, then I didn't to be in the position.
I think that by using these kinds of internships as the primary start point for (eventual) paid employees, NGOs are limiting the pool of potential staff members to those who have other funding sources. You lose a lot of good talent that way.
On the other hand, putting people in the field soes cost money...I think about this a lot, I actually wrote about it once: http://damselsinsuccess.com/blogs/blog.aspx?id=223.
My first international development experience was as an unpaid intern. After that, though, I always thought that if I wasn't useful enough for an NGO to actually pay me, then I didn't to be in the position.
I think that by using these kinds of internships as the primary start point for (eventual) paid employees, NGOs are limiting the pool of potential staff members to those who have other funding sources. You lose a lot of good talent that way.
On the other hand, putting people in the field soes cost money...I think about this a lot, I actually wrote about it once: http://damselsinsuccess.com/blogs/blog.aspx?id=223.
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