Football is the most popular sport in Nigeria. “Search and Groom” (SG) started in 2003 as a project using the vast acceptance of sport as a means of social campaigning and community development. It has become a symbol of Nigerian youth, sports and peace development. SG aims to raise awareness about the role of football in the lives of people in the South and to show the huge potential of the fact that football players reach both people in the South and in the North. SG uses sport as a tool for other community oriented projects, improving life conditions of vulnerable groups of people (youth, homeless, unemployed, drug rehabs) in the poor areas of Lagos. The area of operations are five centres in suburban Lagos: Ajegunie, Agege, Abesan/Ipaja, Ikeja and Ikorodu.

The GLEN participants are involved in the various activities of SG. One of the GLEN participants should be oriented on sport and education, the other on computer and IT education. SG is establishing an IT learning ground and therefore looking for a GLEN participant to transfer knowledge on software and web-design. Another task is to design schedules for football training sessions. The GLEN participants assist with the organisation of several tournaments in which SG will take part, for example The Street Soccer League Cup, an annual tournament meant to select Nigeria's team to the Homeless World Cup.

The main focus of this internship is to learn from each other in all aspects of life such as culture or tradition. Both participants should be open-minded to other activities of daily NGO routine, such as fundraising, public relations, campaigning etc.

The scheduled time for the internship is 3 months between July and October 2010.

The training and preparation seminars before the internship take place in English. The GLEN team will be composed of one German/ Swiss and one Czech participant.

Proposed by: Yomi Kuku (SG)

The consumption of fuel wood is one of the main causes of deforestation in Northern Nigeria. Traditional cooking stoves do not use energy efficiently and require large quantities of non-renewable fuel wood, thus leading to greenhouse gas emissions.

With the help of "atmosfair", a German organisation, the "Development Association for Renewable Energies" (D.A.R.E.) disseminates highly efficient cooking stoves to households, which save up to 80% of fuel wood. The project is currently being developed as “Clean Development Mechanism” (CDM) and part of the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” (UNFCCC). Additionally, the requirements of the voluntary Gold Standard (the world's only independent standard for creating high-quality emission reductions projects with sustainable development benefits in the CDM) need to be fulfilled. The mission of D.A.R.E. is to create awareness on the hazards of wood logging and the subsequent consequence of desert encroachment among the population of the northern states of Nigeria. D.A.R.E.'s activities include environmental protection, provision of clean-energy services to meet the needs of suburban, rural and remote areas using energy efficiency technologies.

The internship takes place in Kaduna and Jos in the middle/North of Nigeria. Participants can learn about the impact of a Clean Development Mechanism Gold Standard activity on rural development.

The GLEN participants assist in monitoring activities and frequently undertake field trips in the region, i.e. Kaduna State and the neighbouring states. The tasks include spot checks and surveys among user households, i.e. data collection about fuel wood consumption, cooking habits and fuel wood sourcing, data quality control, including quality-control of a user database, determination of potential leakage effects and experimental testing of the efficiency of the fuel wood stoves in use. Besides monitoring the activities, the participants are active to raise public awareness about desertification and assist presentations about the use of fuel saving cooking stoves. The participants can also work on their own workshop ideas for trainings in the field of renewable energy and desertification.

The GLEN participants should be familiar with environmental and/or forestry science and should have experience in conducting surveys. Also, they should have good computer skills (Word, Excel and Access). There is continuous professional support from atmosfair and a D.A.R.E. monitoring officer assists them.

The scheduled time for the internship is August to October 2010.

The training and preparation seminars before the internship take place in English. The GLEN team will be composed of one German/Swiss and one Hungarian participant.

Proposed by: Nataly Jürges, Julia Vincz (GLEN participants 2009)