The challenge: Raise awareness of our Sexual Assault Support & Help For Americans Abroad Program, SASHAA, to the 65 million Americans that travel overseas annually without a marketing budget. By employing a Global Social Media Intern, the intern will gain invaluable experience and thousands of Americans will benefit by being aware of SASHAA so they know they have someone to turn to in a time of crisis in a foreign country.
This is a career starting opportunity. We will be able to provide a 5 month internship beginning January 2015 through May 2015 for a college student as a Global Social Media Intern, 20 hours a week, $12 an hour. The intern will be responsible for raising global awareness of our SASHAA program through social media, media outlets both in the USA and in foreign countries. Our goal is to maximize exposure of the program before the summer of 2015 when most vacation travel occurs overseas.
The intern will be responsible for gaining website traffic and attention through social media sites and create content that attracts attention and encourages readers to share it across their social networks. The intern will also be responsible for increasing main stream media coverage of the SASHAA program globally. The goal of this internship is to increase personal safety and reducing the number of sexual assault incidents overseas for Americans traveling abroad.
According to RAINN, 208 thousand rapes occur in the USA annually. If we apply the same population proportion to the 65 million Americans that travel overseas every year, there would be 39,000 Americans raped in foreign countries annually. From the sexual assault victims that have contacted us in various foreign countries, they are extremely grateful for our help and assistance when no one else would or could provide the services we provide to them.
