Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos (FOCO)

Organization: Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos (FOCO)

City: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Unpaid

I loved working at FOCO.  Basically, the organization has two parts.  One works on transnational corporations and their human rights abuses and the other part works on gender issues.  This is because the founders are a husband and wife team who specialize in these areas.  I worked for both- mostly translating between English and Spanish for the transnational corporation side and then working coding interviews for the gender side.  I also had the opportunity to develop a sexual education workshop curriculum with my boss and then go with her to teach it to a group of underserved students at a private school in La Matanza.  The people at FOCO were super nice, young, and liberal.  They were EXTREMELY patient with my Spanish, and always invited me to meetings.  They were also really open to helping me with my research project for school, and including me in any way I wanted to participate.  I enjoyed going there twice a week, and my Spanish improved greatly.