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The Advocacy Project (AP) recruits students to help marginalized communities tell their story and claim their rights.

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Training and Security

AP provides three days of specialized training in Washington and London for all Fellows prior to their deployment. This helps new Fellows become acquainted with all aspects of AP’s work, their host organization, and AP’s security guidelines – while at the same time learning new skills

Training manual: AP will be posting an updated training manual, which should be read carefully before spring training, and a training module which Fellows can use with their hosts

Ensuring security: Many Fellows are deployed to countries in crisis and this poses obvious security concerns. AP’s security policy was redrafted and tightened in 2008. Some countries will be off-limits completely (Gaza, North Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq). Others (DRC) will be assessed closer to the time of deployment. AP requires all Fellows to insurance under AP’s policy and links each Fellow with a “security partner” with a permanent presence in the country. Security will be addressed in the 2009 spring training. Fellows are also required to sign a security waiver prior to departure.

“It was exhilarating, frustrating, inspiring, and tiring. And though it was oftentimes not what I had anticipated my time would look like, it became something even more powerful than I thought was possible." 


Devin Greenleaf on his fellowship with the Jagaran Media Center in Nepal (2007).

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