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Ashley F. Waters '00, who used a Weissman grant to work on development issues in Udaipur, India last summer, says Harvard does not have many resources available to help students work abroad...
...Weissmans take a personal interest in each intern's experience and the overall success of the program, even though they do not participate in day to day administration. Among the improvements Paul Weissman said he would like to see in the program are providing language training and allowing students to travel in the country of their internship...
Past interns say that once they were awarded the grant, they felt like part of a larger family of interns. The Weissmans help create this atmosphere by meeting with the group in the spring and fall, and corresponding with individual students over the summer. Paul Weissman says they were excited every morning to see if new e-mail messages had arrived from other parts of the world...
From London to India, and from Senegal to Israel, last year's Weissman interns went all over the globe. But certain characteristics of the program seem to be consistent...
Additionally, at least one student organization, Bhumi, has come to serve as an unofficial conduit for finding internships in Asia. The group works with non-governmental organizations to match Harvard students with internships abroad. According to Waters, no fewer than six of last year's Weissman interns, herself included, found their internships through Bhumi...