Princeton in Latin America

About

Princeton in Latin America (PiLA) offers year-long service-oriented fellowships with Latin American and Caribbean NGOs working for social development.

Story

PiLA places recent college graduates in one-year service fellowships throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Fellows work in fields ranging from microfinance to natural resource conservation, public health, education, youth development, community development, women's rights and human rights.

Since 2003, over 300 fellows have been placed in fifteen different countries to work with over fifty participating partners.

Mission

Princeton in Latin America (PiLA) partners with NGOs and multilateral organizations and places highly qualified recent college graduates in yearlong fellowships with nonprofit public service, humanitarian, and government organizations in Latin American and Caribbean. Placements emphasize the power of firsthand work experience to shape young people’s attitudes and mobilize them in seeking to effect positive social change. PiLA enhances the mission of its partners and their capacity to constructively impact the communities they serve, in addressing the social, economic, and political barriers to egalitarian community development.

Products

Year-long service fellowships to work with NGOs with a social development mission throughout Latin America and the Caribbean