Re: Unpaid-UN-intern-forced-to-live-in-a-tent-has-resigned
I did this too in my younger days, try 25 years ago . . did a couple of courses at the UN in Geneva (no lying on my application, though I did over estimate my ability in French), and stayed at the Cite Uni during their uni holidays (paid all expenses myself, loaned the money from my parents), then after the course had finished, I stayed on in Geneva to attend some of the sessions for my MA and camped with my Belgium friend Peter in a tent at the camp ground.
We joked that we were part time diplomats, shaving in the camp ground amenities block and putting on a tie to attend the UN!
Plenty of the other students who attended the same courses as I did later worked voluntarily as unpaid interns at the UN after the course, that's just how the system works to eventually get f-t employment, it's very competitive, I was never that well qualified.
So good on the NZ guy for giving it a go I reckon, and showing some resourefulness.
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