Rebecca Sara Cain

Rebecca Cain has over ten years of experience working with vulnerable children in Africa, Latin America and North America. After working with abandoned girls in Swaziland and with street children in Ecuador, she has spent the last three years as a child therapist for underprivileged children in Angola and is the coordinator of a volunteer program at a local orphanage. Her role as a therapist is to provide individual or group therapy to referred children with trauma, behavioral and/or emotional difficulties. The first goal of the volunteer program is to implement play activities that will help to stimulate children at the orphanage and help them overcome many of their fears, frustrations and emotional difficulties. The second goal is to help high school students develop their spirit of volunteerism and solidarity in order to promote peace through education. Rebecca Sara Cain obtained a double honor’s degree in International Development Studies and Business Administration followed by postgraduate studies in Child Therapy. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship program, Rebecca plans on setting up, registering, and mobilizing the funding for a not-for-profit children’s organization focused on child and youth issues in Angola.