Talent Development

December 18, 2019 The Youth Resolve Program: My Internship in Jordan It has been exactly a month since I started my Global Internship in Policy Advocacy. After three months of being an intern in the Marketing and Communications department in HAD, I was offered the wonderful opportunity to travel to Amman, Jordan, to support the closure of the Youth RESOLVE program in the World Vision office. And after this short amount of time, all I can say is that my life here cannot be more perfect. My job at Youth RESOLVE The Youth RESOLVE program in Jordan is an EU-Funded project [...]

November 14, 2019 Volunteer Leadership Programme: South Africa In July, volunteers from Islamic Relief UK visited Talfalah Primary School in Cape Town, South Africa. This excursion was part of the Volunteer Leadership Programme carried out by Islamic Relief UK, in partnership with HAD. The Journey So, there I was - standing at the arrival belt, watching bags being collected one by one, desperately hoping for my suitcase to be the next one that the menacing hole would spit out. But as the baggage hall becomes deserted, I had to accept the painful truth – my suitcase had gone missing. Yes, I [...]

October 20, 2019 My Experience as a Marketing Intern at HAD Over the past couple of months, I have been working as a marketing intern with HAD’s marketing and communication team. Coming into this internship, I didn’t know what to expect. I have to say, this internship has far exceeded any expectations I could ever have had!  Marketing is an integral and vital department within any organisation. Before coming to HAD, I had some awareness of what marketing was but didn’t really have a solid understanding and idea of what it meant in practice. Understanding marketing’s pivotal role, and gaining a [...]

June 19, 2019 Making a difference in the development sector from the eyes of a junior I always thought that getting into a career was easy- if you put your head down and study, the results will speak for themselves and you’ll land your dream job. But after climbing the education ladder and completing a degree, I soon came to realise that the education system was vastly different from the working force; finding myself stuck in the loop of “you need a job to build experience but can’t get a job without experience”. It was a frustrating cycle that left me [...]