Washington DC
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Location: Washington, D.C.
Dates: May
Cost: $500-$1,000
Group Size: 20
Deadline: December 9
Trip Description: The Washington, D.C trip is a week-long service-learning-worship experience. Students will have the opportunity to be trained on advocacy and participate in visits to their representatives in Congress where they will advocate on behalf of poor and hungry people. Also will learn about organizations and others way to work in civil service as a Christian. This is a great Global Partnership trip for those interested in political engagement and seeing it first-hand at our country’s capitol.
Our partner: Bread for the World is a Christian organization that urges our nation’s decision makers to end hunger domestically and internationally. Bread’s members write personal letter and emails and with our member of Congress. Working through churches, campuses, and other organizations, they engage more people in advocacy.
Organizations you may have the opportunity to serve:
Bread for the World
Sojourners
International Justice Mission
World Vision
Interfaith Worker Justice
Regional Overview: Washington, D.C. is the 26th more populous city in the country with 601, 723 in 2010. The Washington Metropolitan Area (surrounding Maryland and Virginia) make a nearly 5.6 million. The District is the center for all three branches of the federal government, as well as many of the nation’s monuments and museums. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies, the headquarters of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Pan American Health Organization.