When Relief Work Global offered me a job right out of college, I was very excited. I had interned with them when I was a junior, studying abroad for a semester in Amman, Jordan. I had really loved my internship, loved the organization and the people and the mission.
Besides that, they hadn’t offered me just any job. They had offered me a Really Interesting Job. I would be part of their six-person team that worked in Zaatari Camp in northern Jordan, the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp. RWG was launching a youth center in the camp and I would be part of the team that would help manage and grow it over time.
I accepted immediately.
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