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Travel with FRB

There are several ways to travel with FRB...

Heart of the Hill

Heart of the Hill offers monthly opportunities for volunteers to go to Washington D.C. and visit with their members of congress to discuss issues around hunger and poverty. Please see side menu for more on Heart of the Hill.

Overseas Trips

Several times a year FRB staff and volunteers travel to visit programs in various countries.  If you're interested in traveling overseas please contacts us, and we can provide you with additional information.

Following are the upcoming overseas trips scheduled for 2012.

  • Central African Republic and Cameroon - January 2012
  • Latin America Mission Trip Series - February 4-March 10, 2012

During the above dates FRB will lead 4 trips, 2 to Guatemala and Nicaragua each, that are designed to be mission focused. If you would like to travel, get your hands dirty and learn about the work FRB is doing first hand, consider one of these trips. Perfect for youth or church groups. For more information please see the attached sheet.

  • El Salvador - Lolotique Program Visit March 11-15th

           This is a regular program visit to the El Salvador-Lolotique program.

  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola - June 2012
  • East Africa - August 2012

        This trip may include visits to Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Kenya and Uganda

  • Eastern Europe and the Middle East- September/October 2012

        This trip may include Armenia, the Balkans and countries in the Middle East.

  • India - December 2012

 

Following are pictures taken from recent trips.

Tanzania

 Tanzania Ilhumwa
 Tanzania Mtumba
 Tanzania Well

Uganda

Uganda Cooperative Center   Uganda Farm
 Uganda Seeds

Serbia

 Serbia Cooperative Greenhouse
 Serbia Garden
 

India

India Loan Books 
 India On the Road
 India Women

Laos

Laos Drying Grain 
 Laos Program Village
 Laos Rice Threshing

North Korea

North Korea Cabbage 
 North Korea Cotton
 North Korea Greenhouse

Cambodia

Cambodia Farmstead 
 Cambodia Kadom Pi
 Cambodia Picoroth
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