Would you like to spend a month volunteering in India... engaging in interfaith serving learning projects that allow you to experience rich Indian culture, visiting orphanages and schools, providing food to the needy, and participating in many other humanitarian activities?
Humari Dunya, an interfaith exchange program of World Faith, a not-for-profit organization, invites students to apply to participate in a volunteer program, which gives young Americans the chance to give back to humanity while engaging in interfaith dialogue and action.
Program Objectives
Religion continues to be used and abused as a dividing force in politics and media internationally. By engaging in service-learning projects with religiously-diverse groups, we can have dialogue through action, and give reveal how different religious traditions can inform a common call to action in peace-building and humanitarian service. Through this, participants will get to: |
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Engage in various service-learning projects |
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Interact and work with religiously diverse locals and American team members, holding dialogue through action. |
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Engage in the local media in the US and India to elucidate the power of interfaith service work. |
Program Overview
Humari Dunya enables young men and women to observe the cultural, social and economic state of the impoverished minorities living in India. Participants may have the chance to travel to the cities of: New Delhi, Agra, and Gujarat. All program participants must be 18 years of age or older. It is lightly recommended that participants have the ability to understand and/or speak Urdu/Hindi, as it will give them the ability to converse with the local people and understand firsthand the hardships they experience. Translation will be available during most the trip for non-Urdu/Hindi speakers.The program is roughly three weeks in length, beginning January 3rd-January 25th.
Please see the Schedule Summary and the Application.