Ten days. Twelve people. One objective a local church has been waiting on, and four months of preparation before you fly. You will be tired, out of your depth, and genuinely useful.
Five classes of operation. Every one of them exists because a local partner asked for it, and if they do not need us that season, we do not go.
Running holiday clubs, sports and English practice out of two inner-city churches. Long days, loud rooms, and the same forty kids every morning.
Drilling and repairing boreholes with a partner church network. Hard physical work in heat, alongside a local crew who run the site and set the pace.
Clinics run with national medical staff. Licensed clinicians lead; everyone else works triage, records, pharmacy and crowd flow.
Second phase of a classroom block the community started themselves. We supply hands and materials. They supply the plan and the foreman.
A pre-vetted roster deployed within 14 days of a call from a partner. No fixed dates. You are assessed once and you wait.
If you are a church, clinic, school or organisation already doing the work and you need hands for a defined piece of it, this is where you ask. Every operation on this site started as one of these requests.
You tell us what needs doing and when. We recruit, vet, train and fund the team, and they work under your direction for the time they are with you. When they fly home, the project is still yours.
There is no cost to you. Team members raise their own travel, accommodation and food. We do not ask partners to subsidise visitors, and we will not send a team that costs you more than it gives.
Short-term missions have earned some of their bad reputation. These are the rules we operate under, and we will turn down a trip that breaks them.
Between applying and boarding there are four months. They are not optional.
Twenty minutes. References, a background check, and an honest question about why you want to go.
A conversation, not a formality. Some people are redirected to a different trip. Some are told not yet.
You raise your own costs. We give you the letter templates, the tracking, and a target date. Start early: this is what decides whether you fly.
Six sessions: cultural context, safeguarding, the actual work, and what not to do. Attendance is required to fly.
Eight to fourteen days on the ground under the partner's direction.
One session after you land. The trip changes people, and going straight back to normal is how that gets wasted.
Standard issue for deploying teams, and available to anyone who wants the kit. Every item is on the packing list for at least one class of operation.
Carry-on legal, wipe-clean lining, red webbing. Survives a pickup bed and a customs hall.
Heavyweight black cotton. Wordmark front, operation codename and year on the back.
Vacuum steel, wide mouth, etched depth markings. Holds temperature through a full field day.
Roll-top, welded seams. For documents, phones and anything you need dry after a river crossing.
Water-resistant paper, dot grid, debrief prompts at the back. The thing you will actually keep.
Unstructured black twill, red stitched fuse across the crown. Packs flat.
Velcro-backed. One patch per class of operation, plus a blank for the one you have not done yet.
Duffel, two tees, canteen, dry bag, log and cap. Everything on the standard packing list, one order.
Applications for the March operation close in 41 days. The others run on their own clocks.