Pros
I was in the middle of my professional career when I started working with Samuel Hall in Afghanistan. I was provided with capacity-building opportunities both internally and externally. The capacity building and support received from the management and the team enabled me to be promoted in the structure and even experienced different domains of work. I witnessed that many colleagues had similar opportunities and even they were supported when they wanted to change their careers and encouraged to promote in the structure. The SH was a start-up as well when I joined, during its development always they were putting in place the “Human” and positive impact as its priority. Yes, if you would like to take the real challenge of research and looking for a positive impact, I would suggest joining SH.
Cons
The work is subject to political volatility and funding to countries like Afghanistan so even when they faced these issues as social enterprises they tried to self-investing in some projects when the means allowed.