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Shalom welcomes anyone wanting to follow an internship, wanting a learning encounter or wanting to volunteer for whatever length of time. Feel free to email with Shalom for more information about cost, accommodation and the kinds of activities you could become involved with.

Mary Coffman volunteered with Shalom in September 2010

I learned about Shalom online while researching peace education organizations in post- conflict Africa. I remember being surprised that it was so difficult to find many organizations doing nonviolence trainings of peace education in communities, and so I was especially thrilled to learn about Shalom, a collaborative effort between two countries in reconstruction (Rwanda and South Africa).Interning with Shalom was as great an internship experience as I could imagine.

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Mary and Basabose Mary Coffman comes to us from the Americas – growing up in the North (USA), studying in the South (Argentina), and currently residing with her husband in the Center (Costa Rica). In 2008, Mary was awarded with a Rotary World Peace Fellowship to study a Masters degree in International Relations and Peace and Security Issues at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mary is pictured here with Jean de Dieu.

 

 

Megan Colnar volunteered with Shalom in July 2009

Arriving in Rwanda you expect to see a country still torn apart by the war in 1994. At least, that’s what I expected to see. Instead on the clean streets of the capital, Kigali, I see a city that could be a nearly perfect fit to my home for the last four years—the Mississippi Delta.  There’s definitely poverty and there’s definitely wealth, but this city is not at all what you expect when you de-board a plane in Rwanda.    

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Megan ColnarMegan Colnar is from San Antonio, Texas.  She recently graduated with a BA in International Relations and Latin American Studies. Additionally, she was the recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2008-2009 to do a comparative study of global nonviolence and reconciliation movements in India, Rwanda, South Africa, Chile and Northern Ireland.

Megan is pictured here with the selfhelp cooperative in Rwamagana.