internship Final Blog post This past semester, I have had the amazing opportunity to study abroad at the University of Oklahoma’s flagship program in Arezzo, Italy. One of the main reasons why I decided to study abroad again during my last semester of college was because OU in Arezzo connected students with internships in the city. I’m very grateful that I was given an internship with the accredited nongovernmental organization Oxfam at their regional branch in Italy. Working for Oxfam Italia was the perfect internship for me, because I was able to gain hands on experience in a field that I plan to work in, learn new skills, and build lasting relationships. The mission of Oxfam is to eradicate global poverty and create a world where people are valued and treated equally, enjoy their rights as full citizens, and can influence decisions affecting their lives. They achieve this goal through six-fold strategy which entails claiming human rights, empow
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Blog Post #3 A little over one week ago, Italians went to the polls to vote for the party they wanted to control their government and lead their country. Among the issues most pressing on voters’ minds were jobs and the economy, as was true in the American and French elections of 2016 and 2017. The value placed on the principle of labor has been deeply embedded into Italian society ever since the inception of the modern republic of Italy. To this day, one can still sense the pride Italians take on reaping the crops of their land and running family owned businesses throughout the peninsula. However, with the dawn of globalization in the 1990s and the Great Recession of 2008, workers in Italy, and across the globe, have struggled to find stable jobs with decent wages. Likewise, governments of countries, such as the United States and Italy, have found it difficult to revitalize their economies. This has resulted in fewer jobs with little growth in wag