Internship

Vanier College Delegation Visits Interns at CCF Namibia

  • by Cheetah Conservation Fund Canada July 11, 2023
Vanier College Delegation Visits Interns at CCF Namibia
Vanier College Delegation posing together at a desert in Namibia.


CCF Namibia has welcomed quite a few Canadian students from Vanier College’s Environmental and Wildlife Management and Animal Health Technology programs this spring.

The Vanier College collaborative project began in earnest in January and continued into May, providing ten students (in groups of two and three) with 5-6 weeks of internship experience at CCF.

A man in a black shirt and jeans giving a tour to a college dean and a student in a white bucket hat, who looks down at stacked packages of Bushblok briquettes inside an industrial facility.
Vanier College Dean Alena Perout touring the Bushblok facility at CCF.

Under the leadership of Dean Alena Perout, an eight person delegation from the College also visited CCF Namibia in April to learn about all aspects of CCF’s work, especially the student intern program. Brandee Diner, who is the key liaison between Vanier and CCF, also joined the delegation.

Three smiling young women wearing sunglasses and hats taking a selfie outdoors in front of a thatched-roof building, with one wearing a blue Cheetah Conservation Fund t-shirt and the other two in matching yellow Cheetah Conservation Fund t-shirts.
The first group of Vanier College internship students to arriving at CCF: (from left to right) Katya Picciani, Serena Duperron, and Isabelle Belisle.

This is the first full year in this multi-year partnership, and there is a very good chance that the intern opportunities will expand across other disciplines at Vanier College.

You can read various first-hand accounts from the Vanier students in our blog.

A group of visitors standing on a dirt path looking at a large fenced enclosure, with one woman taking a photo with her phone and a young man in camo shorts standing nearby.
Vanier Collège interns sightseeing and taking photos, during a visit from their college's delegates.

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