Public Service
The second year of the Summer Enrichment Program reflects John Motley Morehead's belief that along with privilege comes responsibility. During the Public Service summer, Scholars are placed in eight- to 10-week hands-on community service projects across the nation and abroad. About 75 percent of the Public Service placement are abroad, and Scholars often spend their summers in such places as Africa, the Far East, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Scholars who work in the United States have interned with medical or dental community clinics or have worked as teachers with such organizations as the TEAK Fellowship and Breakthrough—programs that target economically disadvantaged but academically gifted middle-schoolers and prepare them to enter and thrive in college-preparatory high school programs. Morehead-Cain Scholars can also choose to work with a variety of youth and community service organizations both at home and abroad.
Examples of Public Service Internships
Akany Famonjena Orphanage (Madagascar) - American Red Cross (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Amigos de las Americas (Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay)
- Art Start (New York, NY)
- Breakthrough Collaborative (Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Cambridge, MA, Hong Kong, Locust Valley, NY, Miami, FL, Raleigh, NC, Richmond, VA, San Jose, CA, Santa Fe, NM)
- Campus Crusade International (South Africa)
- Canadian International Development Agency -- HIV/AIDS Education (Guyana)
- Central Kentucky Riding for the Handicapped (Lexington, KY)
- Child Family Health International (San Francisco, CA)
- Cooperativa Femenina de las Nubes (Chillanes, Ecuador)
- Coral Cay Conservation (Fiji, Phillippines)
- Cross-Cultural Solutions (Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Peru, Russia, Tanzania, Thailand)
- Day School Summerbridge (San Francisco, CA)
- East Bay Conservation Corps (Oakland, CA)
- FINCA International (Washington, DC)
- Florida State Attorney's Office (Orlando, FL)
- Foundation for Sustainable Development (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda)
- Global Frontier Missions (Mexico)
- Global Routes (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, St. Lucia, Thailand)
- Global Service Corps (Tanzania, Thailand)
- Greenpeace (Vienna, Austria)
- Habitat for Humanity (Chile, Malawi)
- Holt International Children's Services (India, Thailand)
- Humanitarian Foundation (Costa Rica)
- i-to-i International (Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Ireland, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand)
- Ikamva Labantu (South Africa)
- Instituto Ecuadoriano de Seguridad Social Campesino (Chillanes, Ecuador)
- King County Department of Youth Services (Seattle, WA)
- KIPP Schools (Atlanta, GA, Newark, NJ, San Francisco, CA)
- Lakeside Education Enrichment Program (Seattle, WA)
- Latin American Youth Centre (Washington, DC)
- Learning Bridge (Norfolk, VA)
- Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic (Los Angeles, CA)
- The Luke Society (Peru)
- Madras Institute to Habilitate Retarded Afflicted (India)
- Maheyno Tributary Mamelodi (Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)
- The Mayhew Program (Bristol, NH)
- Mazra'ih Center for Cooperative Development (Costa Rica)
- Medical Missions International (Peru)
- Methodist Home for Children (Raleigh, NC)
- The Ministry of Hope Organization (Lilongwe, Malawi)
- Nepali Educational Fund (Nepal)
- The North Carolina Zoo Project (Uganda)
- Operation Crossroads Africa (Botswana, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda)
- ProWorld Service Corps (Belize, Peru)
- Rivington House (New York, NY)
- San Diego Youth and Community Services (San Diego, CA)
- Shyriya Hospital (Ruhengeri, Rwanda)
- SOS Rhino (Malaysia)
- Sporting Chance Foundation (Chicago, IL)
- St. Camillus Home of Charity (India)
- St. Francis Medical Center (Honolulu, HI)
- StandUp for Kids (San Diego, CA)
- Students for Students International (S4Si) (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
- Summer Scholars (Warrenton, NC)
- Summerbridge (Boca Raton, FL; Cincinnati, OH; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; Louisville, KY; Manchester, NH; New Haven, CT; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Providence, RI; Sacramento, CA; San Francisco, CA)
- Sweekar Rehabilitation Institute for Handicapped (India)
- Teaching and Projects Abroad (Australia, Bolivia, Chile, China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Peru, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo)
- TEAK Fellowships (New York, NY)
- United Cricket Board (South Africa)
- Venice Family Clinic (Venice, CA)
- WorldTeach (China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Namibia, Poland)
- Yokohama International Volunteer Association (Japan)
- Zambian Judicial System (Zambia)
