Outreach Intern
at Adventures beyond Barriers Foundation
Title
Intern

Location
Pune, India
Job Type & Duration
Internship, 3 months (minimum)
Background
Adventures beyond Barriers Foundation (ABBF) is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes adventure sports for persons with Disability. The underlying philosophy is that “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”  The foundation aims to engage able bodied individuals together with Persons with Disabilities, in adventure sports and allied activities in a safe and sustainable way and to bring them both together; in a journey such that they help and learn from each other.  

ABBF hopes to achieve this by creating appropriate conditions to establish interpersonal contact, and by enabling communication with one another, with a view to understand and appreciate different points of views involving each other’s ways of life. As a result of this new appreciation and understanding, issues of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination between the groups should reduce and lead to long term social transformation. This will also help get persons with disability more visibility, which helps create awareness towards inclusion and accessibility.

So far, ABBF has conducted marathons & running events, paragliding, scuba diving, tandem cycling and mountaineering & trekking.
Roles & Responsibilites
  • Reach out to runners to participate in all our running events 
  • Contact running communities to buy bibs to help us sponsor more Persons with Disability to participate in our events 
  • Find allies and ambassadors for ABBF's Ambassador Program
  • Follow up on employee engagement initiatives with their corporate partners
  • Provide support by coming along for treks and running events
Prerequisites
  • An adventurous and open-minded outlook on life
  • Willingness to learn
  • Proficiency in spoken and written English
  • Strong communication skills
Compensation & Benefits
  • Basic stipend will be provided along with  really good coffee, music and conversations
  • Letter of recommendation
  • Flexible work hours, 5 days a week
  • Informal dress code
Application Deadline
July 30, 2016
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