WEM master’s student Mr. Vishal Thakur shares his experience as an intern with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Bangkok. Vishal writes:
“I thought I would be assigned to work on the technical aspect, such as software application, that I was used to. To my benefit, I have been assigned to work on the productions of a Hindi version of the ‘UNESCO Green Academies’ and a mangrove poster series, where I get to gather information about mangrove forests from across the globe. What I have found is with a proper network of mangrove trees, we can prevent certain amount of flooding. The mangrove trees can also sequester carbon dioxide in addition to being used for disaster prevention. In this way, I have expanded the knowledge in my area to incorporate the environmental aspect into water engineering. Having attended meetings online, I have learned various aspects of water security in different countries, including the social aspect that I was not familiar with before. I am looking forward for the restrictions to be lifted so I can go to the field, as part of my internship, to get a full picture of the environment and to collect data from mangrove forest.”
AIT has long been providing internship opportunities with UNESCO through AIT Internship Program to contribute towards the development of future leaders in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
This experience sharing is extracted from ‘Intern Insights’, a series of internship stories by students in AIT Internship Program. For more information, click this link.