Make a Donation.

The Angel Coalition is in need of financial, material, and volunteer support. The Coalition consists of 61 small organizations and its annual budget rarely exceeds $10,000.  You can directly transfer funds into the Coalition account in Russia or you can make taxable donation to the charitable organization “Miramed” registered in the USA (100% of these funds will go to support Angel Coalition and an expense report  will be given to you detailing how they are used). We are in need of telephone lines, fax and computer equipment, and also funds to publish educational material for women and girls, to support training trips of our partners from other regions on internships, and of course to allow them modest wages for such important work.

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Internships with Angel Coalition Partners.

Upper-class students in law departments of Russian universities participate in internships with the Angel Coalition and work as volunteers.

Purpose of internships: to organize help for people in desperate situations (victims and witnesses of criminal acts) through concrete methods and various forms of work.

The practical training internship program:

1. Accompaniment  (patronage, representation)

2. Consultation (internal appointments and telephone instruction with specialists)

3. Education

You too can become a “volunteer angel”. We are in need of legal assistance, investigation, grant-writing assistance, professional designers,  interpreters from Russian into English and back, and Russian-speaking volunteers who could  spend time in Russia ranging from one to six months.

We can provide internships in our Moscow and St. Petersburg offices, as well as in coalition members’ regional offices for students and graduate students of both sexes who are interested in the questions of women's rights, prevention of international sex-trafficking, helping victims, the judicial aspects of legislation against human trafficking, research, and publication. The Angel Coalition is able to provide a place to live, work opportunities, and education.

Since internships are individual for everyone who wishes, please send us your résumé (CV), short description of your education and what you are willing to learn/do, and also what period of work would be suitable for you.

During practical training the student-volunteer acquires the following professional skills:

1. Models for conversation-building.
2. Communicative skills. networking.
3. Aspects of  personal consultation.
4. Aspects of  consultation by telephone.

Volunteers and interns are expected to pay for their travels to Russia and back, and for their personal needs such as food.

 While doing important and useful work, student volunteers both teach themselves and help others to take on new and interesting experiences.

 If you want to make your internship a part of your academic education, let us know what we need to do so that you can be certified through it. To work in the Moscow office and in the Moscow coalition projects, it is necessary to know Russian.

Internship Application.

These are some of responses of Angel coalition recent and volunteers.

Shonda Wherry: I’m studding at the University of Chicago, preparing to graduate this spring. Last year I studied abroad at Moscow State University and had an internship with the Angel Coalition. It was an excellent experience; I learned a lot and was able to help the Coalition in its projects against human trafficking. During the course of the internship, I interviewed women at Moscow State University and translated documents on public health protection. After volunteer work with the Angel Coalition, I worked as an intern in Washington at Capitol Hill, helping Senator Brownback in his initiative against sex trafficking. This year I’m writing my dissertation on the problem of human trafficking in the Russian Federation in which I use survey data that I collected with the Angel Coalition.

Anna Osbourne: I chose migration research while a graduate student in international relations, with sex trafficking from Russia to the European Union as my dissertation topic. In this context, my practical training was an invaluable experience combining theory and practice. The obligations given to me by the Angel Coalition were varied and interesting. One of the brightest moments was participation in an international conference concerning human trafficking problems.

Andrea Holdt: I participated in an internship at the Angel Coalition’s Moscow office starting in October 2003. After graduating in May 2003 from Pacific Lutheran University, I began studying international relations and socio-economic reasons for orphanhood in the post-communist period in Russia. I learned about the problem of human trafficking through research published in print media. Documents from the Miramed Institution and also the Angel Coalition web sites were very useful and I decided to get connected with them. I speak Norwegian and Swedish well enough, and in addition, I would like to learn a little more Russian during my stay in Russia.

During the four months of my internship, I fulfilled various assignments, including grant writing, research for a database, translating an article from Norwegian and Swedish on the subject of human trafficking, networking with foreign organizations that also combat this problem, networking with the embassies of Scandinavian countries, etc. I also visited different events—for example, puppet performances in Moscow schools on the subject of human trafficking and the first All-Russian conference on human trafficking, where Colin Powell (who was then visiting Russia) appealed to visitors on this topic.

My experience with the Coalition will help me in the future, whether I go on to work with other women’s rights NGOs or whether I will get involved in social work with Russian immigrants in America. I learned a lot about the details of the internal work of a growing organization. I’m also interested in continuing to learn Russian to become an interpreter. It was a positive experience I will never forget.