JOURNEY
What is JOURNEY?
Through the JOURNEY programme, we aim to facilitate a journey into the lives of others, into the developing world, into encountering something new and into taking positive action to change the world.
JOURNEY is a range of experiences aimed at engaging people of all ages in the opportunity to journey with us as partners in development.
- The journey will be a physical experience: involving travel to another country, active adventure and working alongside local communities on development projects.
- The journey will be an emotional experience: exposing people to the reality of the hurts and harms that the world holds for so many in our global community, but also the joys and fulfilment found in these situations.
- The journey will be an intellectual experience: involving people in developmental advocacy issues and helping them to understand the facts (and the faces behind them) and giving them outlets for action and campaigning.
- The journey will be a spiritual experience: guiding people to appreciate and understand a Christian perspective and rationale for development work and in the process, understand more about God's heart for us and our neighbours in developing countries.
JOURNEY Opportunities
Below are details on all of our current JOURNEY Opportunities (subject to change). For more information about any of these please contact us on journey@salvationarmy.org.uk or call us on 020 7367 4777.
JOURNEY Encounter 2012
In the Easter and summer holidays of 2012, teams will have the opportunity to visit Zambia, Malawi or Sri Lanka.
Zambia – Spring ‘open’
A 10-14 day experience to the heart of Zambia in Southern Africa, where you will mainly be based in Chikankata, visiting various communities and Salvation Army development projects, staying overnight in Kasiwe village, visiting an ethical coffee farm, as well as witnessing the urban poverty in Lusaka and a trip to the vast and wonderful Victoria Falls in Livingstone.
Sign up by: 1st December
Orientation weekend: 14th–15th January 2012
Cost: £1200 + flight costs (additional costs include visas, vaccinations, anti-malarial medication, all transfers to and from UK airports and your own personal spending money).
Malawi – Spring ‘closed’
A 10-14 day experience in the ‘warm heart of Africa’. For the first part of your trip to Malawi, you will be based at The Salvation Army’s anti-trafficking centre for children in Mchinji. The trip will also include a visit to Blantyre in the south of Malawi to visit water projects, HIV/AIDS projects, micro-credit projects as well as the opportunity to climb Mount Mulunje!
Sign up by: 1st December 2011
Orientation weekend: 14th–15th January 2012
Cost: £1200 + flight costs (additional costs include visas, vaccinations, anti-malarial medication, all transfers to and from UK airports and your own personal spending money).
Sri Lanka – Summer ‘open’
A 10-14 day experience including visits to Salvation Army children’s homes, an anti- trafficking centre for women and girls, and post tsunami reconstruction projects in Colombo and the south-west coast. As well as all of this, there will also be time to experience the beauty of Sri Lanka, visiting the Elephant Orphanage in Pinnewela.
Sign up by: 1st March 2012
Orientation weekend: 30th Mar - 1st April or 13th-15th April (TBC so please pencil both dates in your diary)
Cost: £1200 + flight costs (additional costs include visas, vaccinations, anti-malarial medication, all transfers to and from UK airports and your own personal spending money).
GENERAL INFO
The cost for all of the above trips is all-inclusive - covering in-country transport, food, water, snacks, hosting costs, accommodation, excursions and a donation to the development projects (you may like to do some fundraising to raise extra money for the projects). Please budget additional money for souvenirs and any non-itinerary activities. By taking part in one of these JOURNEY experiences you will get to meet people and visit places far away from the tourist tracks, see what real life is like and witness the beauty and hope amidst the issues, challenges and poverty. If you're willing to throw yourself in, then this JOURNEY could be life-changing in a whole host of ways.
The focus of the trips is not to go and "help" with practical work (although some of the trips may include an element of this), but instead through the sights, sounds, smells and tastes to experience life like never before.
Application Process
If you are ready to sign up today then please click here. You will then be taken to the website of Tearfund who handle the administration of our Encounter trips. They will then send you confirmation of your booking and deal with the administrative process for you from start to finish.
If you are still have further questions then please email journey@salvationarmy.org.uk and our JOURNEY Co-ordinator will get back to you as soon as possible.
JOURNEY Adventure Opportunities 2012
Examples of JOURNEY Adventure opportunities include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, trekking the Great Wall of China, the Indian Himalayas, or the Inca Trail, or canoeing down the Zambezi river. If you would like to register your interest for one of the trips above as an individual or a group, then please email journey@salvationarmy.org.uk
JOURNEY Connect Opportunities
There is a range of JOURNEY Connect placement opportunities to work in Zambia, Malawi, Sri Lanka, India or Tanzania. Some opportunities require people to be Christian and some to be part of The Salvation Army as well because of the nature of the job that is to be done. Placements may include teaching, care work, children’s activities, nursing, midwifery, medicine or manual labour, depending upon your skills. If you are interested in finding out more simply click here to download and fill out the Connect application form and return to us. We can then get in touch and try and find a placement that matches your skills and interests. All placements are subject to availability in-country.
To find out more about JOURNEY or to enquire about future opportunities email: journey@salvationarmy.org.uk