Restructuring our program during a pandemic.

How will this year work?

In previous years, InSite has taken students to South Africa to physically contribute to the grassroots projects they’ve fundraised for. In our current circumstances, that is no longer possible.

InSite will continue to offer a program and stay connected to our South African Partners by implementing similar goals locally: Training students in leadership and growing food.

We aim to create 300 new home gardens.

In collaboration with many other initiatives and social, government agencies. We will green not just Amsterdam but other urban areas in The Netherlands.

If you would like to know more about our over-all mission, click here.

InSite 2020/2021 - MYP5 to DP2

Program Details

• Leadership training - Action Sundays

  Reckoning approach: creating a playground for CLASS (Character, Leadership and Social Skills).
  
  Once a month*, Agents focus on using play, team-building and art-making as a develop the seven character pillars that we believe encompass a leader:

  • Trust

  • Respect

  • Responsibility

  • Fairness

  • Care

  • Transformative Beauty

  • Citizenship

  
  Agents will directly apply their learning on projects existing in the real-world, specifically the initiatives designed by the City of Amsterdam to meet their 2030 eco goals. In addition, they will each fundraise €500,- each to continue support for our South African Partners, which will then be doubled through a Healing Hands Grant.
  

• Traineeship - Greening Amsterdam

  For the first time, InSite will be offering Agents a traineeship in-line with the IB academic calendar*. Traineeships are great opportunities to gain experience in a field that interests you.
  

  • Eco-stewardship - Design tangible, natural systems for preserving the natural world (i.e. worm farms, compost, vertical and city-suitable gardens).

  • Business Development - Learn what it takes to develop a business with a sharp, entrepreneurial mindset.

  • Media** - Discover stories, create content, and curate it for social media with design tools and software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign etc.)
    

• Garden jumpstart - Plant Kit

Welcome a plant friend into your home. Agents will receive a plant friend that they will re-pot, grow, and care for to jumpstart their curiosity for nature and the stewardship that comes along with it.

• Second-hand clothing store - InSite’s location

  For the first time in 10 years, InSite has a physical location. We have been donated a large amount (approximately 2 tons) of clothing and a space that we can transform as our own.
  
  In cooperation with community volunteers and InSite students, we will be cultivating a space for students to study, hangout, connect, and have exposure to our in-house media studio.
  

• Pricing -

  Students only pay a €400 training fee and fundraise €500 that we’ll double and send to South Africa.
  

Student Leaders

DP2 alumni are more than welcome to join as a student leader if you’d like to participate in the program as one. You've already done the program, so now it's just about using your insight. Apply via our sign-up button.

Internships

We are welcoming students in their gap year or university as interns. Apply via our sign-up button and add a message stating that you’re interested in an internship.

*Contact Hours - Time that can count as CAS

• Action Sundays: 40 hours total, 6 hours each, once a month

• Traineeship: 48 hours total, 3 hours each, twice a month

Contact hours adjusted in-line with Dutch Corona virus regulations.

**This Traineeship has a sign-up deadline of October 22nd, 2021 due to limited space.