Cathy Karanja is a fun Kenyan girl who studies is South Africa and has come to Asia for the very first time.
She has worked with AIESEC for a year as VP OGX and is currently working in the National Support team for AIESEC South Africa. She had done a precious internship in Mauritius in the marine conservation programs being run there.
She chooses to come to Malaysia for her second internship because she is interested in the project management and event planning aspect of the project. Therefore, she had chosen MIRACLE project for her internship in Malaysia.
The MIRACLE project is a project which is concern about the environmental issues. Besides MIRACLE project, she is also joining the HOPE project which is about HIV and AIDS. She is also passionate about creating awareness of HIV and AIDS. This is why she will do both the HOPE project and the MIRACLE project in her second internship.
She is expects to develop and brush her organizational and development skills further, and form networks with other interns from around the world. She has only been here for a day, but she loves the culture and food in Malaysia. However, she finds the weather here is too humid and she is afraid of the lightning when raining.
She was attended her first event for the HOPE project on the same night she landed, and got to hear about the AIDS awareness program currently running in UPM such as ‘Night of HOPE’. She even got to meet and attend one of the Taiwanese singer, Peter Pan. She initially thought that was a cartoon character, but later got to learn is a celebrity super star from Taiwan. What a surprise!!!
written by Cathy Karanja and Yen Hooi
