Annual Report 2010–11

19 Roaming the World Working abroad is another way to know the world. Each year, CUHK’s Global Internship Programme (GIP) offers close to 300 internships to our students. These placements in mainland and overseas cities offer students exposure to foreign cultures and first-hand experience of the workplace environment of host countries, preparing them for a career overseas. In June 2010, Lorraine Lee, Year 1 student of Geography and Resource Management, worked on an organic farm in Brazil via the GIP. The internship broadened her knowledge about Brazilian culture and organic farming. Located in northeast Brazil near the town Ubajara of Ceará, the farm covers over 1,600 hectares and primarily produces acerola to provide Vitamin C used in health supplement products. Lorraine’s life on the farm was hectic and she was involved in different types of work, including harvesting fruits, removing weeds, spraying fertilizers, helping to prepare lunch for over 100 farming staff members, promoting organic farming in schools nearby as well as assisting to organize company activities such as a marathon and a cycling race. In addition, she had to complete a project on solid waste recycling as requested by the internship programme. After the eight-week internship, she gained a much better understanding of the actual operations of an organic farm. The farm is designed as a natural biotic system and different zones perform different functions. Every zone is closely linked and inseparable in the whole farming process. Sheep were kept so that their waste could be used as fertilizer for plants such as acerola. In return, the remaining fibre of the extracted acerola would be fed to the livestock. This was like a small-scale food chain. 行走四方 到外地工作也是認識世界的方式，是 另一種不同的體驗。「寰宇暑期實習 計劃」每年為近三百位學生提供到 內地和國外實習的機會，接觸不同 文化的工作環境，有助畢業後到外 地發展。 在 2010 年 6 月，地理與資源管理學一 年級學生李樂怡就透過寰宇暑期實習 計劃，踏足南美洲，到巴西的有機農 莊學習有機耕種，認識巴西文化。 農場位於巴西東北部塞阿拉省的 烏巴哈洛鎮附近，總面積一千六百多 公頃，主要種植針葉櫻桃，用作生產 如維他命 C 營養片等保健食品。 在為期八周的實習中，樂怡要在農場 採收水果、除草、施肥，在廚房為農場 過百員工準備午飯，又或到附近的學校 推廣有機耕種，協助組織公司的活動， 如馬拉松及單車比賽等。此外，她還要 完成一份有關固體廢物回收的報告， 才符合整個實習要求。