Camilla Labate is a young girl from Vicenza, Italy.
She has a Bachelor degree in Translation and Interpreting and a Masters degree in International Development Cooperation, both from the University of Trieste.
In the past year she attended two courses at the University of Padua, both of the duration of 9 months: one in “Project management and EU financed programmes” and the other one in “Latin American studies”.
In 2010 she did a four-month internship at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland and worked on a research regarding social support measures in favour of people suffering from HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis contained in grants awarded by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria.
She did many experiences abroad during her high school and university years: a ten-month exchange programme in the USA (2004-2005), a four-month exchange in Germany (2008) and a semester in Spain (2010).
She is a member of an Italian NGO (IBO Italia) with whom she takes part in volunteer activities, both in Italy and abroad. Indeed, in summer 2012 she went to Bellary, India, for a month and worked in a centre for disabled and blind children.
In the past six months she has been working for COOPI (Cooperazione Internazionale), an Italian humanitarian NGO. She was part of a team in charge of organizing fund raising activities.
At the moment, she is doing an international internship with Human IS Right in Buea, Cameroon. She is working at the Prisoners’ Rights Project together with other interns and will stay for 4 months.
