UNITED CHRISTIAN MISSION INC

Join us on one of our humanitarian missions. Your development project is determined by matching your skills with the needs of the local community. Hands on service work, weekly adventures, home stays, and local culture and language classes creating an unforgettable experience. Internship projects include but are not limited to: health care, environment, politics, teaching, and human rights.
*Note: You will have the flexibility to customize and/or create your own projects
Dates: Programs start every 2 months of the year and run from 2 – 4 weeks in duration.
Accommodations: You’ll live like a local at a guest house. Our carefully screened hosts are middle-class, and accommodations include a private room, shared bath and three homemade meals per day.
Cost: Program fees are based on the location and duration of your trilocal salaries, host family payments, and local purchases. Program fees include: full room and board, domestic transportation, 24 hour safety and medical services, local culture and language classes, and funding of development projects and internships. The program fee also includes multiple cultural and adventure activities. 
Average Program Costs:
Program Fee: $250
Airfare (Subject to location and season): $1500
Accommodations: $40/ night and $560/ two weeks
Meals (2-3 meals a day): $50/ day and $700/ two weeks
Transportation & Gas: $100/ week and $200/ two weeks
Total Average = $3210 Per Person (2 week estimate)
Total Average= $2580 Per Person (1 week estimate)
The participation fee covers international airfare, orientation costs, in-country transportation, materials, food, accommodations, all scheduled program expenses, visas, and international health insurance. Program costs do not include: immunizations, individual transportation to orientation, and personal items.
Each year, many participants raise their fee through steady, determined fundraising and hard work. Most raise their fee by soliciting the aid of college, community, and religious groups. They hold auctions, bake sales, garage sales, and benefits on their campuses and in their communities. In exchange for financial support, upon their return, they commit themselves to sharing their experience with those who contributed to their journey.
Successful fundraising requires a willingness on the applicant’s part to articulate a fundraising plan and to ask others for helrelatives, and colleagues to form a support committee for their effort. OWR does everything possible to assist those interested persons who are uncertain about their ability to pay the participation fee. We provide fundraising ideas, contacts with others who have successfully raised their fee in the past and consistent encouragement in the process. It is up to you, however, to initiate and undertake the fundraising process.
Because OWR is a not-for-profit organization, contributions to it on an applicant’s behalf are tax-deductible in the United States to the fullest extent the law allows.