Location: Matagalpa, Nicaragua
Carreer: Business related
Duration: min. of 3 months
Organization:
Ever since the revolution in the 1980’s conserving local traditions has become more important to Nicaragua. Most of the traditional customs have disappeared when the Spaniards come to colonize Central America and nowadays the influence of the United States makes that more and more traditions and customs are disappearing. In the 80’s some successful initiatives started to save some cultural history.
One them is an organization of indigenous farmwomen who are still weaving and braiding in a traditional way. The women live in the mountain communities around the city of Matagalpa. The fabrics produced are tailored into handbags, backpacks, wallets etc.
The sales of these products are the main income for the indigenous farmer women, it helps them to improve their very basic living standards and it helps them to become more independent on their family. But it also helps conserving the traditions and values.
Because the indigenous women are not (yet) able to commercialize their products themselves a very modern Nicaraguan woman has been appointed to help them continue weaving and braiding. She has big plans making this into an success.
Tasks:
You can help het and the women achieving during your internship by helping to professionalize the sales & marketing of the product. Many things need to be done on these areas:
• Make promotional material
• Set up a network of new and existing selling points
• Calcute costprices
• Make a logistic plan for distributing the products
• Create a webshop/ website
• Design informative labels for the products
In coordination with the leader of the project you can write and execute a marketing/ sales plan, set up a business plan or just do some of the tasks mentioned above. What you exactly will do depends on the demands of your type of internship, career and personal preferences.
Remarks:
You will be living and working in the beautiful Matagalpa. At the company of the leader of the project you will have office space available. At the start of the internship you can stay in the communities for some days to get to know the importance and roots of the project. Matagalpa is a nice mountain town with a very progressive spirit.
An intermediate level of Spanish is required, if you don’t have this yet a language course of four weeks in Nicaragua will get you there.
Interested?
Please contact info@onstagelatijnsamerika.com after subscribing at our website.
To be clear:
On-Stage provides many internships on a great variety of careers. Apart from the vacancies mentioned on the website there are more possibilities.
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