10F., No. 53, Sec. 1, Nanchang Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100 , Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Taiwan Africa International Service Association (TAISA) is a non-profit organization established in 2008 by volunteers from National Tsing Hua University and Fu Jen Catholic University. Officially registered in Taiwan, TAISA focuses on implementing meaningful service projects in Africa, addressing the needs of schools, medical institutions, and communities through careful evaluation and planning.
TAISA values active collaboration with local partners, emphasizing mutual trust and shared goals. Volunteers work closely with individuals and organizations to co-create, transfer, and localize skills and knowledge, ensuring a sustainable impact deeply rooted in the communities they serve. This people-centric approach has fostered lasting friendships and cooperation between Taiwan and Africa.
Through these initiatives, TAISA facilitates cultural exchanges that allow Taiwanese volunteers to gain a deeper understanding of Africa’s diverse cultures and traditions. In turn, these efforts promote greater awareness of Africa within Taiwanese society, advancing TAISA’s mission of building bridges and cultivating mutual growth across borders.
【East Africa Project Team】
TAISA's East Africa project team has developed a framework to empower education institutions in developing countries to provide digital education. In the past four years, this framework has successfully transformed 29 learning institutions in 3 African countries to provide sustainable digital learning opportunities to over 15,000 learners.
Inspired by this success, and the overwhelming positive feedback we got from the like-minded NGOs from ICT4D forum in Ghana, we are currently focusing on developing a partnership network to onboard partner organizations to adopt TAISA's digital education framework and benefit more learners in different countries and territories
The project team is currently working from two locations including Taiwan and Kenya, our Africa hub, and having team members from both Taiwan and Kenya.
【Internship Project Topic】
Designing and Implementing Digital Education Initiatives in Africa through Strategic Partnerships and Pilot Projects.
【Internship Project Objectives】
【Internship Job Description】
The intern is going to have the opportunity to participate a new project from the early stage, as TAISA is currently finalizing the partnership discussion with two partner NGOs (One iNGO and one African based NGO). They are expected to work with the project team and the advisors to support the communication with the partner NGOs candidates.
Right after the partnership agreement, the project team will engage in preparing a pilot project with our counterparts in Africa. The project development process is an interaction of our existing digital education framework and location knowledge from the team on the ground. The team will carefully "fit and adapt" TAISA's digital education framework into new social-economy-culture context by reviewing the hypothesis of the framework and the reality on the ground.
After the pilot plan is established, a campaign on the new project is kicked-off for fundraising and granting purposes. The intern can bid for an opportunity to participate in the pilot project with our partner organization in the next year through a joint internship offer from the partner organization.
10F., No. 53, Sec. 1, Nanchang Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100 , Taiwan (R.O.C.)